[Developers] GCC 4.4.0 available for Windows

[dave fournier]

Arni Magnusson wrote:

Hi Arni,

Have you figured out where they are with a mingw for win64.

    Cheers,

    Dave


> Hi everyone,
>
> MinGW released a new stable version of GCC for Windows last week,
> making a significant leap from 3.4.5 (2004) to 4.4.0 (2009). I have
> upgraded GCC on my Windows machine and it builds the current ADMB (svn
> 286) without a problem.
>
> Perhaps it's time for a new ADMB release soon, providing the new user
> scripts (adcomp, adlink, admb) and admb-9.0.x-mingw-gcc4.4.0. If you
> imagine you're a Windows user with GCC 4.4.0 installed, it's unclear
> whether you need to also install GCC 3.4.5 just to use ADMB. Since
> ADMB is a cutting-edge tool, and Windows users can easily upgrade
> their GCC for free, I think the next ADMB release can quickly
> deprecate GCC 3.4.5 for Windows (not Linux).
>
> Installing MinGW GCC 4.4.0 is painful, manually merging 11 different
> packages, with a library version conflict to spice things up. To save
> ADMB users the headscratching/-banging, I have uploaded it, ready for
> use, at
> http://admb-project.org/community/related-software/gcc.zip/view. I'm
> not advertising it on the mailing list yet, until it's more relevant
> for ADMB users.
>
> An important change introduced with MinGW GCC 4.4.0 is that
> executables need to be linked using the -static flag, if they are to
> run on all Windows machines independent of libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll. For
> ADMB purposes, this means that GCC scripts will probably be different
> in Windows (-static) versus Linux (no such flag). Other changes are
> more positive, including improved support for modern processor
> capabilities.
>
> As a side note, I'm preparing an update of ADMB-IDE that I will name
> either 3.4.5-6 or 4.4.0-1, depending on how things go.
>
> All the best,
>
> Arni
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