From fa58a56f3cdf71021d7d7a49e98845f57652a3fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sisyphus Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 22:56:14 -0500 Subject: Add mingw64 support Hi, Using the attached patch to the blead source (as of a few hours ago), I can build perl with the following OS/compiler/make combos. On 32-bit XP: MSVC++ 7.0 / dmake (uses win32/makefile.mk) MSVC++ 7.0 / nmake (uses win32/Makefile) Borland C++ 5.5.1 / dmake mingw.org's gcc-4.3.0 / dmake mingw.org's gcc-3.4.5 / dmake mingw-w64.sf's 32-bit gcc-4.4.3 / dmake (There's a bug with that last compiler on XP. The perl it builds on XP hangs on XP, but runs ok if copied across to Vista. I think this is unrelated to the patches - probably even unrelated to perl. Without these patches perl will not even build using that last compiler.) On 64-bit Vista: 32-bit MSVC++ 7.0 / nmake (uses win32/Makefile) 32-bit MSVC++ 7.0 / dmake (uses win32/makfile.mk) 32-bit Borland C++ 5.5.1 / dmake mingw.org's 32-bit gcc-4.4.0 / dmake mingw.org's 32-bit gcc-3.4.5 / dmake mingw-w64.sf's 32-bit gcc-4.4.3 / dmake mingw-w64.sf's 64-bit gcc-4.4.3 / dmake mingw-w64.sf's 64-bit x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc-4.4.3 / dmake 64-bit MicrosoftPlatform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2 / dmake (uses win32/makefile.mk) 64-bit MicrosoftPlatform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2 / nmake (uses win32/Makefile) Not all of those builds pass all tests - but where the removal of the patches still permits perl to build, the same tests still fail. That is, *nothing* is lost by including these patches - but there are significant gains. Each of the above builds was done according to the normal win32 configuration parameters - ie multi-threaded, non debug. No unusual config settings were applied. (I did build one debug perl on Vista using mingw-w64.sf's 32-bit gcc-4.4.3 and it built fine.) Please feel free to apply these patches (with or without modification) - and, yes, you're more than welcome to blame me if they cause any breakages ;-) Of course, some of those compilers (Borland, Microsoft, and the compilers from mingw.org) already build perl *without* having to apply any patches. It's just the other compilers that need the patches. The purpose of testing with Borland, Microsoft, and the mingw.org compilers is just to check that these patches don't break them. As a final check, I've done a build on my aging linux (mandrake-9.1) box, gcc-3.2.2. I built with '-des -Duselongdouble -Duse64bitint -Dusedevel'. No problem with that, either. If there's additional testing requirements please let me know, and I'll try to oblige. I believe the patch applied successfully for me - see below my sig for the output. Cheers, Rob Rob@desktop2 ~/GIT/blead $ patch -p0