Yes, that's the game plan I have...and klutzy and Vadim.... getting the mingw-w64 toolchain working.
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Brian Anderson <bander...@mozilla.com>wrote: > On 09/12/2013 12:39 PM, Thad Guidry wrote: > > Yeah, there should not be a reason anymore, if I am correct, to not have > GCC 4.7 in MinGW for Rust Windows users anymore. I will give that a try > also , and if it works, then we can close out > (#8598<https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/8598> > ). (I also would like to get rid of the 4.5 downgrade needed).... but > that does need more testing from the core Rust team and others. > > It's something that Brian has been counting on me to help make happen, > and Alex is also contributing to some of that effort by fixing various LLVM > build issues that affect Windows Rust users as you mention in > (#8598<https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/8598> > ). > > Agreed, if a new stage0 compiler snapshot can be created, then we should > be in the clear to also close out > #5878<https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/5878> > . > > > > Thanks for everybody's amazing contributions to our Windows support. If > somebody makes the changes necessary to work with a newer toolchain then we > will upgrade the bots. It's unlikely we can do this before 0.8 though, due > in two weeks. > > I gather that some folks would like to switch to the mingw-w64 toolchain > as well. Is that in the cards here? > > _______________________________________________ > Rust-dev mailing list > Rust-dev@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev > > -- -Thad Thad on Freebase.com <http://www.freebase.com/view/en/thad_guidry> Thad on LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/in/thadguidry/>
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