Package: mingw32-ocaml Version: 3.12.0+debian2 Severity: wishlist --- Please enter the report below this line. --- The current mingw32-ocaml uses the old gcc-mingw32 package. In unstable we have gcc-mingw-w64 lately which can build both win32 and win64 binaries, and is based on a more recent GCC (4.5.2).
It would be good if at least the 32-bit part of mingw32-ocaml would use the new mingw from unstable. If it works it'd be awesome if it could also use the 64-bit part of mingw to cross-compile to win64. The compilers are called: i686-w64-mingw32-gcc x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc I did a quick test with the Debian package: edit debian/control, and replace gcc-mingw32 with mingw-w64-dev in Build-Depends, and replace both gcc-mingw32 and mingw32-runtime with gcc-mingw-w64 (which depends on binutils-w64) $ find debian/ -type f -exec sed -ie 's/i586-mingw32msvc/i686-w64-mingw32/' {} \; $ dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc The package built successfully (on amd64, it probably would on x86-32 too, didn't try), and a quick test shows that a hello world builds with the brand new i686-w64-mingw32-ocamlopt. --- System information. --- Architecture: amd64 Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-rc4-phenom Debian Release: wheezy/sid 500 unstable ftp.ro.debian.org 500 unstable ftp.lug.ro 500 testing security.debian.org 500 testing ftp.ro.debian.org 500 stable ftp.ro.debian.org 1 experimental ftp.ro.debian.org --- Package information. --- Depends (Version) | Installed ===============================-+-============ lib32ncurses5 (>= 5.5-5~) | 5.9-1 libc6 (>= 2.7) | 2.13-0exp5 libc6-i386 (>= 2.7) | 2.13-0exp5 ocaml-nox | 3.12.0-5 ocaml-findlib | 1.2.6+debian-1+b1 gcc-mingw32 | mingw32-runtime | 3.13-1 Package's Recommends field is empty. Package's Suggests field is empty. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org