On 26 February 2016 at 05:44, Stefan Weil <s...@weilnetz.de> wrote: > Am 25.02.2016 um 22:27 schrieb Michael Roth: >> Quoting Peter Maydell (2016-02-25 12:18:17) > [...] >>> I'm open to the idea of dropping old-mingw from the build rotation >>> if it looks like it really is just totally hopeless, since I have >>> a newer setup for it now. >> >> I wouldn't want to speak for dropping old mingw checks in general (cc'ing >> Stefan), but for qemu-ga I think it makes sense. VSS/fsfreeze also >> relies on mingw-w64 so it's really the only build system I use for >> testing functionality. > > I cannot remember the last time when I used MinGW and don't think > that it would produce a working program (wasn't there missing support > for thread local storage?). Current Linux distributions include > support for mingw-w64 cross compilations, but not for MinGW. > And finally MinGW only supports 32 bit Windows which looses > importance nowadays. > > Therefore dropping MinGW support and only supporting mingw-w64 would > be fine for me.
OK, I have dropped my ancient mingw w32 setup from the compile testing list, so this pull req is ok to apply as-is. (This will also mean we no longer get annoying "failed to build" issues for other gcc-4.2-isms like duplicate typedefs, missing U or ULL suffixes, etc. Which is good I guess :-)) thanks -- PMM
