GCC 4.1 on mingw platform

[Christopher Armstrong]

Hi

Those that use mingw know that they have quite an old, but stable, set 
of compilers (gcc 3.4 series). I've been experimenting with compiling 
gcc 4.1 for a mingw target and host and have been able to successfully 
produce binaries. Is there any interest in the GNUstep community for a 
gcc 4.1 compiler set that runs on mingw and produces mingw binaries?

If anyone's interested, I'd write up some instructions and/or post 
binaries if I had somewhere to put them. It appears to be possible to 
compile the c and objc frontends using a normal 2/3 stage bootstrap 
("make bootstrap"), and produce c/c++/objc/objc++ frontends by 
recompilation with a gcc 4.1 set. I'm otherwise using mingw 
binutils/w32api/mingw-runtime + a couple of gcc patches. I've been using 
Windows Vista 32bit.

Has anyone else had any experience with gcc 4.1 on windows, particularly 
with GNUstep? It would be interesting to hear about other people's 
experience with this as well. Do people prefer cross-compilation (e.g. 
produce a gcc cross-compiler for mingw target on a linux host)? I hope 
this is not too off-topic for this list.

Regards
Chris