The scripts provided by the MinGW-W64 project[1] are designed
for building the dual-target(i686/x86_64) MinGW-W64 compiler for i686/x86_64 hosts.
The scripts are distributed under the 'BSD 3' license[2].
In order to use the scripts provided by the MinGW-W64 project it is needed:
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Windows-64bit or Linux + Wine-64bit
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Install MSYS2 from:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/
(MSYS2 wiki: http://sourceforge.net/p/msys2/wiki/MSYS2%20installation/) -
Get the scripts into
<msys root>/home/<user>/mingw-builds:
cd && git clone <paste correct url>
(see the diff between the 'master' and 'develop' branches, maybe you need
the 'develop' branch exactly) -
In the MSYS2 file structure delete the
/MinGWdirectory. -
Delete the paths pointing to any preinstalled MinGW from the
PATH
environment variable. -
Go into the MinGW-builds root directory.
cd && cd mingw-builds -
Options:
--mode=[gcc, python, clang]-version` - what package to build with version.
--arch=<i686, x86_64>` - build architecture.
--buildroot=<path>` - using '<path>' as build directory.
By default used MSYS user home directory.
--fetch-only` - only download all the sources without start building.
--update-sources` - try to update sources from repositories before build.
--exceptions=<model>` - exceptions handling model.
Available: dwarf, seh(gcc>=4.8.0 only), sjlj.
--use-lto` - building with using LTO.
--no-strip` - don't strip executables during install.
--no-multilib` - build GCC without multilib support (default for DWARF and SEH exception models).
--static-gcc` - build static GCC.
--dyn-deps` - build GCC with dynamically dependencies.
--rt-version=<v3, v4>` - version of mingw-w64 runtime to build.
--rev=N` - number of the build revision.
--with-testsuite` - run testsuite for packages that contain flags for it.
--threads=<posix, win32>` - used threads model.
--enable-languages=<langs>` - comma separated list(without spaces) of gcc supported languages.
available languages: ada,c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++
For more options run: "./build --help"
- Run:
./build --mode=gcc-4.8.1 --arch=i686for building i686-MinGW-w64./build --mode=gcc-4.8.1 --arch=x86_64for building x86_64-MinGW-w64./build --mode=gcc-4.8.1 --arch=x86_64 --preloadfor preload sources and building x86_64-MinGW-w64./build --mode=gcc-4.8.1 --arch=i686 --exceptions=dwarffor building i686-MinGW-w64 with DWARF exception handling
For example, during the process of building of the i686-gcc-4.7.2 will
be created the following directories:
<buildroot>/i686-4.7.2-release-posix-sjlj-rev1/build
<buildroot>/i686-4.7.2-release-posix-sjlj-rev1/libs
<buildroot>/i686-4.7.2-release-posix-sjlj-rev1/logs
<buildroot>/i686-4.7.2-release-posix-sjlj-rev1/prefix
For x86_64:
<buildroot>/x86_64-4.7.2-release-posix-sjlj-rev1/build
<buildroot>/x86_64-4.7.2-release-posix-sjlj-rev1/libs
<buildroot>/x86_64-4.7.2-release-posix-sjlj-rev1/logs
<buildroot>/x86_64-4.7.2-release-posix-sjlj-rev1/prefix
And the sources directory:
<buildroot>/src
The archives with the built MinGW will be created in <buildroot>/archives/
At the moment, successfully building the following versions:
gcc-4.6.4
gcc-4.7.0
gcc-4.7.1
gcc-4.7.2
gcc-4.7.3
gcc-4.7.4
gcc-4.8.0
gcc-4.8.1
gcc-4.8.2
gcc-4.8.3
gcc-4.8.4
gcc-4.8.5
gcc-4.9.0
gcc-4.9.1
gcc-4.9.2
gcc-4.9.3
gcc-4.9.4
gcc-5.1.0
gcc-5.2.0
gcc-5.3.0
gcc-5.4.0
gcc-5.5.0
gcc-6.1.0
gcc-6.2.0
gcc-6.3.0
gcc-7.1.0
gcc-7.2.0
gcc-4_6-branch (currently 4.6.5 prerelease)
gcc-4_7-branch (currently 4.7.5 prerelease)
gcc-4_8-branch (currently 4.8.6 prerelease)
gcc-4_9-branch (currently 4.9.5 prerelease)
gcc-5-branch (currently 5.6.0 prerelease)
gcc-6-branch (currently 6.5.0 prerelease)
gcc-7-branch (currently 7.3.0 prerelease)
gcc-trunk (currently 8.0.0 snapshot)
Builds also contains patches for building Python 2.7.9 and 3.4.3 versions for support gdb pretty printers.
Big thanks for these patches to:
2010-2013 Roumen Petrov, Руслан Ижбулатов
2012-2015 Ray Donnelly, Alexey Pavlov
[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/
[2] http://www.opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause