From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MF489-0005qx-BC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:37:05 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MF484-0005jv-Lu for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:37:04 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60906 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MF484-0005jg-9H for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:37:00 -0400 Received: from ra.siriusit.co.uk ([217.207.197.130]:35189) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MF483-0004PI-Is for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:37:00 -0400 Message-ID: <4A322FBC.1040704@siriusit.co.uk> Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:36:44 +0100 From: Mark Cave-Ayland MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Fix cygwin build and simplify feature detection in 'configure' script References: <60cad3f0906100453y7a27dc2fhb1ea7d4c6f69e861@mail.gmail.com> <60cad3f0906101352o55dbb029i96989f52503e22a1@mail.gmail.com> <60cad3f0906101509l15154a82g8e1d5dc7375dce3@mail.gmail.com> <20090612022633.GG25550@shareable.org> <20090612095502.GA22131@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20090612095502.GA22131@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Daniel P. Berrange" , Jamie Lokier , David Turner , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > There is a mingw64 project that is under active development that aims > to support both Win32 and Win64 APIs. It may well already be good > enough to test QEMU builds for Win64, though I've not had personal > experiance of it FWIW the Mingw64 port is in reasonably good shape (the only reason it's still marked as beta is because the project feels they don't want to change this until all of the gcc languages are supported). They have a good history of working with open source projects to fix any bugs that arise, and generally are very helpful with bug reports (perhaps more so than the original MingW project). http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64 ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland - Senior Technical Architect PostgreSQL - PostGIS Sirius Corporation plc - control through freedom http://www.siriusit.co.uk t: +44 870 608 0063