Hi, Michal. I see. I did run it with hardware virtualization enabled (I always do). I'll check with it turned off. Thanks for the tip!
> You'd need a VM without hardware virtualization (disabled VT-x/AMD-V). Then > the recompiler which is built with MinGW would be used pretty heavily. If you > can run, say, Windows XP that way then the MinGW-produced code isn't too > broken. > If you have hardware virtualization enabled then the recompiler will be used > very little or not at all. > - Michal > ----- Original Message ----- > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected], [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2017 11:35:27 PM GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Bern > / Rome / Stockholm / Vienna > Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] Windows build requirements for MinGW > Hi, > Just FYI, today I finally had time to try out this build I did with MinGW32 > version 4.5.4, and it seems to be working OK. I did not do extensive testing > though, just installed it onto a Win7 x64 host, started a WinXP virtual > machine > and worked in it for a bit. Unfortunately I'm not sure what exactly the > recompiler module does, so I don't know where to look for possible problems > that > the change could cause. >> Hi, >> Fair enough, thank you very much for the information! >> I'll keep that in mind. >>> Michal is right. And years ago there was a more strict dependency to an old >>> version of gcc from code in src/recompiler. This has been fixed long time >>> ago. >>> Newer versions of MingW will most likely work but are not tested ATM. >>> Kind regards, >>> Frank >>> On Montag, 26. Juni 2017 10:51:53 CEST Michal Necasek wrote: >>>> >>>> Because MinGW 3.3.3 is what's used for the official builds and it's known >>>> to be working. Other versions may well work, they just aren't positively >>>> known to be working. >>>> >>>> And no, MinGW is not needed for the Guest Additions at all. >>>> >>>> >>>> - Michal >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: [email protected] >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2017 7:17:12 PM GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / >>>> Bern / Rome / Stockholm / Vienna >>>> Subject: [vbox-dev] Windows build requirements for MinGW >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> The wiki page >>>> https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Windows%20build%20instructions >>>> says that for 32-bit build one requires MinGW 3.3.3. Why exactly this >>>> version? I >>>> tried to build VB using MinGW32 version 4.5.4 (the same rubenvb build as >>>> MinGW64), and it compiled without problems (except that I had to patch >>>> configure.vbs, obviously). I did not test yet whether it works, though... >>>> >>>> The only thing I did not compile is Guest Additions. Is it for them that >>>> version >>>> 3.3.3 is needed? Or, maybe, some runtime compatibility with older systems >>>> (like >>>> WinXP)? Or is it just legacy restriction not required anymore but >>>> forgotten to >>>> be updated? -- Bye. With best regards, Konstantin Vlasov. _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
