Date:  Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:01:48 -0500
From:  madodel <madodel at ptdprolog.net>
Subject:  [VOICENWS] SW: GCC 3.4.6 port updated 2008-09-30

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From: Mark Dodel <feedbackDESPAM at DESPAMos2voice.org>

Paul Smedley has updated his OS/2 port of the GNU C Compiler. 
http://www.smedley.info/os2ports/

"Mainly due to the fact that GCC 3.3.5 (which is what is currently used by 
kLibc) is becoming too old to build the latest Mozilla trunk code, I 
started working on building a newer version of GCC.

I've started with v3.4.6 - as the thought was that the amount of changed 
between 3.3.5 and 3.4.6 would be comparatively small compared with aiming 
for the 'latest' GCC (currently 4.3.2).

The current binary has been used to build several projects successfully - 
ie rsync, Apache2, MySQL, Firefox 3.0-cvs, Ghostscript, ffmpeg amongst others

Known issues:

     * strange warnings about make cycles when linking
     * currently installs into \usr\local not usr

Changes since 20th September build
  - Built with high-memory support enabled
  - Added support for 'fastcall' calling convention (fixes warnings when 
building mozilla)
  - statically link stdc++ to avoid using the older libstdc++ contained 
within libc063"

Download:     http://download.smedley.info/gcc-3.4.6-os2-20080930.zip
			http://download.smedley.info/gcc-3.4.6-os2-20080930-patch.zip

REQUIRES: libc063.dll  - ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.3-csd3.zip

Please let Paul know if you find this software useful.  He needs user
feedback to continue work on these projects.  He maintains a bug tracker
for many projects at http://mantis.smedley.info  It just requires a simple
registration.


If you'd like to help support continued development of this project (and
many others) for OS/2 & eComStation, please consider making a donation
either via Paypal using the  link on Paul's website, or using the Mensys
Online Store http://www.mensys.net/os2ports/



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