Antony, That would be fantastic. I'm under the impression there are a few extra features and fixes that could be worth exploring, such as a fix for MAX_PATH.
Jared, I've found the latest version I can use is 4.7.3 (ex: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingwbuilds/files/host-windows/releases/4.7.3/64-bit/threads-win32/sjlj/x64-4.7.3-release-win32-sjlj-rev1.7z/download), which I use for my own builds daily. Anything newer than 4.7.x will not work and will likely end with linking errors on blender.exe or pthreads; those are the usual errors I get with recent versions, anyway. If newer versions work for you, that's wonderful, but only 4.7.1 is supported. On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 6:44 AM, Antony Riakiotakis <kal...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, we do not support every build of MinGW64, in fact due to ABI > incompatibilities for different gcc versions only a build using gcc 4.7 > will work. > > In our build instructions we explicitly state that only a specific build > will work > > http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Building_Blender/Windows/MinGW/CMake > > This one: > > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains%20targetting%20Win64/Personal%20Builds/rubenvb/gcc-4.7-release/x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc-4.7.1-release-win64_rubenvb.7z/download > > I have found that most gcc 4.7 builds work fine. Newer versions of > mingw-w64 headers might conflict with our libraries and source. I would > like to do a full update of libraries to support newer versions of MinGW64 > but that would be time consuming so I do not plan to do it very soon. > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > -- Jeffrey "Italic_" Hoover _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers