windows build environment, current options
Hi all,
I am in the process of migrating over to a W7 machine [from XP, always cutting edge here ;-)] and want a little feedback on which Mingw to use. The Windows build instructions
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Compiling_Inkscape_on_Windows
(still) say:
TDM's GCC (MingW): Please use exactly the version 4.6.1 32bit bundle installer and follow the instructions below. In the setup, Uncheck the [Check for updated files on the TDM-GCC server] when installing, or it will install a newer version. Newer versions (tdm-gcc-4.7+) introduce important changes in gcc and don't work with the current Inkscape devlibs (see developpers' list discussion).
(Note: "developpers" is verbatim from that page.)
Is this still correct? My current build environment on XP is straight Mingw 4.6.2. Current versions of gcc are 5.10 for TDM and 4.9.3 for Mingw from those developers. TDM still seems to support sjlj but Mingw is only dwarf2. From feedback on the Mingw mailing list they have not had sjlj since gcc 3.6.something, yet the inkscape I built worked with devlibs OK, or at least it seems to, perhaps I never triggered code that would have failed on dwarf2 and worked with sjlj.
So, really go with that one version of TGM GCC or will the others work?
Thanks,
David Mathog mathog@...1176... Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech
The 64bit dev libs has been built with gcc 5.3.0 posix seh 64bit compiler. So, I don't see why you cannot move up to 5.3.0?
I don't have any experience with the TDM dragon compiler.
On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 12:53 PM, mathog <mathog@...1176...> wrote:
Hi all,
I am in the process of migrating over to a W7 machine [from XP, always cutting edge here ;-)] and want a little feedback on which Mingw to use. The Windows build instructions
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Compiling_Inkscape_on_Windows
(still) say:
TDM's GCC (MingW): Please use exactly the version 4.6.1 32bit bundle installer and follow the instructions below. In the setup, Uncheck the [Check for updated files on the TDM-GCC server] when installing, or it will install a newer version. Newer versions (tdm-gcc-4.7+) introduce important changes in gcc and don't work with the current Inkscape devlibs (see developpers' list discussion).
(Note: "developpers" is verbatim from that page.)
Is this still correct? My current build environment on XP is straight Mingw 4.6.2. Current versions of gcc are 5.10 for TDM and 4.9.3 for Mingw from those developers. TDM still seems to support sjlj but Mingw is only dwarf2. From feedback on the Mingw mailing list they have not had sjlj since gcc 3.6.something, yet the inkscape I built worked with devlibs OK, or at least it seems to, perhaps I never triggered code that would have failed on dwarf2 and worked with sjlj.
So, really go with that one version of TGM GCC or will the others work?
Thanks,
David Mathog mathog@...1176... Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech
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