Date:  Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:31:43 -0400
From:  madodel <madodel at ptdprolog.net>
Subject:  [VOICENWS] SW: GCC 4.3.2 news - Firefox builds (and runs) with it

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From: Paul Smedley <paulDESPAM at DESPAMsmedley.id.au>

Hi All,

I managed to get some form of dllexport support working in GCC 4.3.2 today, 
and successfully built Firefox 3.0-cvs using it 
(http://smedley.info/mozilla.jpg) It required just a couple of extras 
changes above those required to build using 3.4.6

There are still known issues with my current GCC 4.3.2 build:
- precompiled headers do not currently work
- no thread support in gcc.exe as I forgot to --enable-threads when running 
configure - this will be fixed in the next drop
- for some strange reason, gcc fails to produce an executable where there 
are libs added on the command line that are not required, ie
     gcc -Zexe -Zomf -s conftest.c -lgcc    FAILS
     gcc -Zexe -Zomf -s conftest.c         WORKS
- no support yet for the GOMP multiprocessor library
- link warning when using -Zomf - emxomf will require updating to deal with 
the new stabs types, but according to Knut, the warnings can be safely ignored

This build hasn't had huge amounts of testing, but has been used to build 
Scribus, Firefox 3.0cvs and ffmpeg successfully. Any feedback on things 
that work/don't work vs GCC 3.3.5 would be appreciated!

The binary itself can be downloaded from 
http://download.smedley.info/gcc-4.3.2-os2-20081008.zip  Please also keep 
checking http;//os2ports.smedley.info for newer builds.

Feedback appreciated :)

Cheers,

Paul.


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