[ANNOUNCEMENT] Assorted MinGW-w64 toolchain libraries and tools

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

On 2016-02-10 14:27, Tony Kelman wrote:
> Yaakov Selkowitz writes:
>> These packages provide libraries and tools for cross-compiling a wide
>> variety of projects for native Windows with the MinGW-w64 toolchains.
>
> Ooh. I will totally be using these, this is great to see. So does
> this mean it's open season for ITP's on mingw-w64 library and
> application packages?

Not MinGW applications, unless they are Cygwin-hosted tools used for 
cross-compiling (which I think we have pretty well covered).

> (Also a newer clang+llvm would be useful, they've made a lot of
> improvements since 3.5.)

LLVM/Clang version bumps are time-consuming to get right.  I actually 
looked at 3.6, but MCJIT did not work OOTB with PE/COFF targets.  I'll 
have to see what the story is with 3.7.

-- 
Yaakov

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