mingw-targeted cross-compiler question

[NightStrike]

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Andy Koppe <andy.koppe@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22 December 2010 15:12, NightStrike wrote:
>> 2010/12/22 Frédéric Bron:
>>>>>> I checked the Make file, it used this flag:
>>>>>> gcc -mno-cygwin -g -Wl,--add-stdcall-alias -Wl,--export-all-symbols ...
>>>>>
>>>>> replace gcc by gcc-3
>>>>> gcc 4 is now the default on cygwin but the cross compiler is not
>>>>> supported for that version.
>>>>> Frédéric
>>>>
>>>> What do you mean by not supported?  JonY maintains the cross compilers....
>>>
>>> I meant that i686-w64-mingw32-gcc exists but not i686-w32-mingw32-gcc.
>>> I thought that w64 meant "built on win64" and mingw32 "run binary on win32".
>>> So it seems to me that with cygwin running on a 32 bit windows, it is
>>> not possible to cross compile to win32. However with a 64 bit windows
>>> you can produce win32 applications.
>>> However, I just tried to use i686-w64-mingw32-g++ on my win32 machine
>>> with a hello world program and it produces an binary that can be used
>>> from windows on that win32 machine.
>>> So my question to the list: what is the meaning of w64 in the name?
>>
>> Basically, "stuff from mingw-w64.sf.net"
>>
>> The middle piece of the triplet is the vendor tag.  We at mingw-w64
>> are the vendors.  We support win32 and win64, for both host and
>> target.  I admit it's confusing, but we didn't come up with a better
>> name fast enough.
>
> Also, the 'mingw32' in the OS part of the triplet is hystorical
> ballast. The '32' in there doesn't mean anything (anymore), and a
> better name would have been plain 'mingw' or even just 'windows'.
> Alas, compatibility concerns have stopped any change.

You should be able to safely drop the 32 at the very least with recent
versions of config.*

I thought we changed most things to check for mingw* instead of mingw32.

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