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Brian Johnson wrote:
| I'm trying to compile libtorrent in cygwin (in preparation for eventually
| compiling rtorrent). It's reporting some issues, which I believe are
| related to the fact that the version of GCC and the related C++ header
| files are so old (GCC version is something like 3.3.x)

The distro provides GCC 3.4, which almost all software still compiles
with, and most upstreams will support it if their code does not compile.
~ (Hey, some projects still support 2.95.)

| Yaakov: I was just wondering if you had any intention on releasing GCC 4.x
| as part of cygwin-ports, obviously with updated binutils?

No, I do not.

| On a side note, has anyone been able to update GCC to version 4.x
| relatively painlessly? Any 3rd-party packages available that anyone is
| aware of?

AFAIK no and no.  Search the cygwin list archives for details.


Yaakov
Cygwin Ports

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