[Bf-committers] MinGW support

[Yousef Harfoush]

> Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 23:08:42 +0500
> From: sergey.vfx at gmail.com
> To: bf-committers at blender.org
> Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] MinGW support
> 
> If we're going to keep supporting MinGW it should be latest official
> version. I remember we were having major issues with some system libraries
> (mainly threading and OpenMP), so it makes sense to re-evaluate if those
> issues are solved form MinGW side before trying to support all the
> libraries we need.

i use mingw 4.72 with added openmp libs from here:
http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/download
and threading works properly no crashes, at least in my workflow.


Regards
Yousef Harfoush
bat3a at msn.com




> 
> On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 10:38 PM, alekulyn <alekulyn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> > >
> >
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> With best regards, Sergey Sharybin
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