Re: MinGW Target on TaskCluster

2018-03-14 Thread Tom Ritter
On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 5:36 PM, Aaron Klotz wrote: > I'd like to follow up on this old thread to discuss what we can do about > improving the mingw developer experience for people doing Windows-centric > stuff. To follow up on this, in

Re: MinGW Target on TaskCluster

2018-02-07 Thread Steve Fink
On 2/6/18 6:27 PM, Tom Ritter wrote: But when it comes to the header case mismatch issue, we could automate this. Would it be possible for us to write some code to automatically detect these case discrepancies and automatically land corrections? Where would be the right place for something like

Re: MinGW Target on TaskCluster

2018-02-06 Thread Ryan VanderMeulen
On 2/6/2018 6:36 PM, Aaron Klotz wrote: Furthermore, can we clarify whether mingw is currently a tier 1 or tier 2 platform? Earlier in this thread, mingw was denoted as tier 2 (and it still shows up as tier 2 on treeherder), yet sheriffs are backing out patches when mingw bustage occurs. Tor is

Re: MinGW Target on TaskCluster

2018-02-06 Thread Tom Ritter
Yes, let's fix it. I'm very grateful to you and everyone else who has kept the MinGW build running; and I'd like to keep you... well as happy as you can be while supporting an esoteric build target that's inconvenient for you. With regards to backouts, when sheriffs have asked, my response has

Re: MinGW Target on TaskCluster

2018-02-06 Thread Aaron Klotz
I'd like to follow up on this old thread to discuss what we can do about improving the mingw developer experience for people doing Windows-centric stuff. I've had several patches backed out over the past month because of mingw header files differing in case from the headers distributed by the

Re: MinGW Target on TaskCluster

2017-10-09 Thread Tom Ritter
On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Philipp Wagner wrote: > Am 09.10.2017 um 07:31 schrieb Tom Ritter: > > As part of our work with Tor, we’ve been working on getting a MinGW-based > > build of Windows into TaskCluster. > > A maybe too obvious question from the side lines:

Re: MinGW Target on TaskCluster

2017-10-09 Thread Philipp Wagner
Am 09.10.2017 um 07:31 schrieb Tom Ritter: > As part of our work with Tor, we’ve been working on getting a MinGW-based > build of Windows into TaskCluster. A maybe too obvious question from the side lines: Why is the Tor browser cross-compiled and not using MSVC? Philipp

Re: MinGW Target on TaskCluster

2017-10-09 Thread Ted Mielczarek
On Mon, Oct 9, 2017, at 01:31 AM, Tom Ritter wrote: > As part of our work with Tor, we’ve been working on getting a MinGW-based > build of Windows into TaskCluster. Tor is currently using ESR releases, > and > every ESR they have to go through a large amount of work to get the build > working

Re: MinGW Target on TaskCluster

2017-10-09 Thread Georg Koppen
Hi! Tom Ritter: > As part of our work with Tor, we’ve been working on getting a MinGW-based > build of Windows into TaskCluster. Tor is currently using ESR releases, and > every ESR they have to go through a large amount of work to get the build > working under MinGW again; by continually

MinGW Target on TaskCluster

2017-10-08 Thread Tom Ritter
As part of our work with Tor, we’ve been working on getting a MinGW-based build of Windows into TaskCluster. Tor is currently using ESR releases, and every ESR they have to go through a large amount of work to get the build working under MinGW again; by continually building (and testing) that