New MinGW 4.0 Build

Linuxhippy linuxhippy@web.de
Tue Mar 22 19:00:00 GMT 2005


Great!

I was just a bit afraid since the "old" build went a bit out of fashion ;-)
Just great that there is a new one!

Thanks a lot, lg Clemens

>Hi People,
>
>I've put out a new MinGW 4.0 gcc/gcj build:
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>http://www.thisiscool.com/gcc_mingw.htm
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>This has integrated SwingWT 0.86.1 and SWT 3116.
>There seem to be a ton of new Java classes and goodies,
>but I've been out of touch and haven't played with
>them.
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>Issues:
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>- I haven't done DLL builds for this because I
>  don't have a 4.0 port of the "exceptions across
>  DLL boundaries patch" that Danny Smith creates.
>- some networking and channels stuff seems to be
>  busted (cf. NetTest in my examples). I've run
>  this with the same sources and the i686-pc-linux-gnu
>  native compiler and the test runs okay, so it seems
>  to be a Win32 issue. Haven't investigated.
>- the SwingWT textboxes don't work in my samples.
>  This was also the case with my September build
>  and SwingWT 0.84 and doesn't appear to be remedied
>  in SwingWT 0.86.1. Robin wrote me off list concerning
>  this (in 0.84) and said:
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>>Hey Mohan - I know about this and have a note to fix it. It's just that 
>>they aren't specifying their default preferred size correctly. If you  
>>manually set preferred size (or use a layout that explicitly sizes 
>>components) they work ok.
>>    
>>
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>Enjoy.
>
>-- Mohan
>http://www.thisiscool.com/
>http://www.animalsong.org/
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