> I wonder if we should just bundle runtime libraries with the stage0 snapshot > in the future?
I think we should bundle them: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/9252 On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 7:16 AM, Vadim <vadi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Okay, looks like my mingw 4 fix went in last night. > > Here's my personal recipe for setting up mingw: > 1. Download and install mingw-get > 2. Install the required packages. One can do this in GUI, but I prefer the > command line, as it's less ambiguous: > mingw-get install mingw-developer-toolkit > mingw-get install mingw32-base > mingw-get install mingw32-gcc-g++ > mingw-get install mingw32-libpthreadgc > mingw-get install msys-wget > 3. Install GIT and Python, make sure they are on the PATH > 4. In MSYS shell: ../configure; make check-fast > > Until stage0 snapshot compiler has been rebuilt with new mingw, stage0 > compilation will fail because latest mingw has wrong versions of the runtime > libraries that rustc depends on. So: > 5.. Get old versions of these dlls: > mingw-get upgrade "g++<4.6" > mingw-get upgrade "libpthread=2.8.0-3" > 6.. Copy libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll, libstdc++-6.dll and libpthread-2.dll from > %mingw%\bin into %build%\i686-pc-mingw32\stage0\bin. > 7. Roll mingw back to the latest: > mingw-get upgrade > 8.. make check-fast > > I wonder if we should just bundle runtime libraries with the stage0 snapshot > in the future? > > Vadim > > > On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Alex Crichton <acrich...@mozilla.com> > wrote: >> >> Hey guys, so we're gonna hold off on upgrading the windows builders until >> we're 100% sure that we won't bork them with a mingw upgrade. What I think >> that we can do, on the other hand, is: >> >> 1. Land Vadim's patch onto master >> 2. I spin up a clean windows vm (need to do that anyway) >> 3. Could you guys send me a list of instructions to build rust on "the >> most recent" mingw? >> 4. Once verified, and possible bugs fixed, we can go upgrade the builders >> and documentation about mingw >> >> Ideally the "build instructions" would be: >> >> A. Acquire mingw. >> B. Acquire relevant gcc version 4.X >> C. ./configure && make >> >> It'd be awesome to keep it that simple, and it seems that your patches >> would have eliminated the need for patching system files? >> >> How does that sound to you guys? >> >> On Sep 16, 2013, at 6:20 PM, Vadim <vadi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list Rust-dev@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
