The biggest reason is that zip, as well as windows, doesn't support symlinks. There's a legacy requirement that we can't get rid of yet to have the /mingw dir and the /x86_64-w64-mingw32 dir be identical. Under linux, we can just symlink the two. But on windows and with zip, it's easier to just duplicate them.
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Wesley W. Terpstra<wes...@terpstra.ca> wrote: > Good evening. > > We've been using your mingw64 toolchains as part of the Win64 port of MLton. > As we're approaching a new release, I was looking into bundling a win64 > toolchain into our installer. I was surprised to see that the toolchain > zip-file is 190MB! This seems excessively large considering that a similar > toolchain targetting win32 from mingw.org is under 40MB. Is there a good > reason for this? > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Mingw-w64-public mailing list > Mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list Mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
