Documentation on W32

[Vincent Torri]

On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 11:37 AM, LRN <lrn1986 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 15.09.2012 13:18, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
>> On 09/15/2012 11:11 AM, LRN wrote:
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>>>> I'm wondering what is Loaded_CertEnumCRLsInStore() that you
>>>> use instead of CertEnumCRLsInStore()? If the mingw32 issue is
>>>> widespread I could include that patch in gnutls.
>>>
>>> MinGW Win32API package does not have CertEnumCRLsInStore()
>>> prototype in its headers (easily fixable by declaring the
>>> prototype yourself) AND it doesn't export CertEnumCRLsInStore()
>>> in its import library for crypt32. THAT is the real problem. The
>>> only way to fix that is to patch mingw w32api package and rebuild
>>> it. I can't tell users to recompile one of the most basic
>>> packages in their system, obviously. Submitting a patch to
>>> mingw.org takes efforts, it will be in the queue for some unknown
>>> amount of time, and then one will have to wait for the next
>>> win32api release.
>>
>>> Very little fun in that.
>>
>> Indeed. Is there any reason for not using mingw64-32 instead?
>>
> No reason other than compatibility.
>
> Mingw.org has been around longer than mingw-w64, and most packages
> that aimed at W32 targeted mingw.org. They are similar, but not
> identical, and migrating to mingw-w64 means porting some small things
> in 100 packages all over again.
>
> Also, mingw.org are the ones who made and continue to maintain MSys,
> which is still the only way (other than Cygwin) to build on W32, so
> mingw.org is the obvious toolchain to use with MSys.

Compiling in MSYS is excessively slow (1h30 with MSYS vs 10mn with
linux for a dozen of library in which I'm involved). I always cross
compile my packages on linux (with mingw-w64). I didn't have issue
with cross compilation (at least, the same than with mingw.org).

Vincent Torri

> And finally, mingw-w64 only recently started to supply native
> toolchains. Before that mingw-w64 was always an x86 toolchain that
> cross-compiled to x86_64. Cross-compilation is extra tricky, and i
> prefer native toolchains (like mingw.org).




Vincent Torri