Re: [Gcl-devel] help fixing edit_double, failure to print 1d-6 for gcl-2.6.8

[Camm Maguire]

David Billinghurst <address@hidden> writes:

> That works.  Thanks.
>
> Happy to try and answer any mingw questions, but I am not an expert.
> In fact, I have been spectacularly unsuccessful in hacking gcl on
> windows - 
> all I have managed to do is keep gcl-2.6.8pre - and now 2.6.8 -
> running with gcc-3.3.1 on Windows XP.
>

Greetings!  I'm certainly no expert, but from my experience with mingw
on a real windows machine, there definitely appears to be instabilities
in the toolchain.  Utilities fail with 'permission denied', mysterious
segfaults building gmp are not reproducible, etc.  It almost appears as
if the entire mingw toolchain suffered from what gcl did until we moved
all its memory up above a certain address range.  

First, I'd like to know if binaries built under some lowest common
denominator windows will run on all others.  Windows people don't appear
to build software frequently, as just one of these issues would grind
Linux development to a complete halt.  Is it then fruitful to forget
about chasing down the buildtime idiosyncrasies in all windows versions
and focus for now on one build platform which will run on all others?

Take care,
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Camm Maguire                                        address@hidden
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