On Wednesday, July 31, 2013 11:28:02 PM UTC+2, Bill Hart wrote: > > > > > On 31 July 2013 21:06, Jean-Pierre Flori <jpf...@gmail.com > <javascript:>>wrote: > >> Bonus question: what are the differences betwen the x86 and x86w dirs >> (and subdirs) (and x86_64 and x86_64w dirs (and subdirs))? >> > > The w is for Windows. > Yup I got that :)
The ABI is different, so all the assembly needs to be rewritten. > > >> >> On plain x86, is it only the asm syntax? >> > > I don't recall. I doubt it. > > >From the very few things I read, it seemed the x86 syntax was similar (or you could choose a common one at least among the several available ones...), but I may be wrong obviously... > So that YASM gets used everywhere for the x86w dir, whereas GNU as gets >> also used for the x86 dir? >> > > Yes. > > >> (And for x86_64w I guess the very nice idea of having different ABI on >> Linux and Windows also comes into play...) >> > > Yes. > > >> >> I could have a look myself, but I'm sure some of you can give a very nice >> explanation! >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Best, >> >> JP >> >> Additional bonus question: among the mingw flavours, which are supported >> (or known to work)? I mean among legacy mingw(32), i686-w64-mingw and >> x86_64-w64-mingw? >> From very quick testing, I'd say the latter (kind of) work, the middle >> one does not, and I did not test the first one (Ubuntu does not want to >> install both falvours at the same time! it seems that Debian is nicer >> though). > > > None are supported or known to work. They keep breaking it, every single > version. > > Ok, that's clear. So you should be happy to now that building a 64 bits MPIR with mingw64 seems to produced something usable! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mpir-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mpir-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
