[Bf-committers] MinGW support

[alekulyn]

I talked to psyfi over IRC around half a year ago and told him I'd like 
to help with this.  There have been several complications along the way, 
such as which MinGW version we should use, rumors that clang was coming 
into the picture, and general inactivity regarding anything MinGW.

As for which MinGW version to use, my conversation with psyfi was mainly 
about adding libraries to the mingw64_gcc49 branch he started.  To that 
end, I did compile some libraries with MinGW-W64 GCC 4.9, but I must 
have deleted them some time ago.

Anyway, like I told psyfi, I'm willing to help with this.  Just need to 
know which MinGW version to use.

On 12/26/2015 5:12 PM, Sergey Sharybin wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> There are some missing precompiled libraries (sndfile, opensubdiv, OSL) and
> some misng libraries update (python, SDL, OpenAL)  for MinGW.
>
> This makes MinGW builds quite diverged from the official builds feature-set
> and lib-version wise, moving MinGW builds to the boundary where we can't
> call it officially supported anymore.
>
> Additioanlly, svn:externals for mingw folders seems to be misconfigured now
> and needs clean up.
>
> Anyone to have a look and fix all those issues?
>