[Bf-committers] MinGW support

[Sergey Sharybin]

We can not advertise some sort of franken-compiler as an officially
supported. Either the issues are solved in upstream or we don't consider
compiler officially supported.

On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 11:44 PM, Yousef Harfoush <bat3a at msn.com> wrote:

> > 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