Re: Request update of Target Platforms section

[Eric Blake]

On 02/01/2015 02:13 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 05:38:23PM -0800, Nathaniel Hayden wrote:
>> According to the content itself ("As of 2011 ...") the section was last
>> updated in 2011, and commit logs seem to confirm this.

So we ought to patch that.  These days, the 'mingw' project (32-bit
only) is quite ancient, and not supported by Fedora.  Instead, the
'mingw64' project (both 32-bit and 64-bit) is actively maintained, and
both are easy cross-compilation targets under both Fedora and Cygwin.


> My understanding, based on recalling previous discussions on this list,
> is that mingw64 (despite its name) supports Windows in both 32-bit and
> 64-bit modes, and that Gnulib supports Windows only in 32-bit mode.

These days, I've done more testing of mingw64 (both bit-widths) than of
the older mingw; maybe we should just update things to declare mingw64
as our main target.  At any rate, 64-bit mingw mostly works with gnulib,
and I welcome any bug reports.

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