cygwin64 install g++ v 4.6.4
Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net
Fri May 30 19:56:00 GMT 2014
On 2014-05-29 03:58, David Stacey wrote:
> On 29/05/14 05:19, Philapol wrote:
>> I would like to install g++ v 4.6.4 under cygwin64 but only v 4.8.2 is
>> available. What is the procedure to install this older version?
>
> 64-bit Cygwin is relatively new, and the earliest version of gcc that
> was built for 64-bit was gcc-4.8.0 (IIRC). If you need an older version
> then you would have to build it yourself from source.
Not likely; the requisite Win64 SEH support was only introduced in 4.8,
so building an earlier version simply isn't going to work.
> But as others have pointed out, your time would be better spent maintaining
> the code so that it compiles with a more modern compiler.
+1. Unless you can *prove* that there is a bug in GCC (which does
occasionally happen, granted), then this is usually the answer to this
sort of question.
Yaakov
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