[Developers] unifying language: "MinGW", "GCC", and "g++"

[Ian Taylor]

I think the phrases "Linux and GCC", "Windows and GCC" are unambiguous and
easier to understand for new users than "MinGW" or "g++".

Arni has cleaned up the README file, but we should probably move to those
terms in the name of the download links at
http://admb-project.org/downloads and
the associated files at http://code.google.com/p/admb-project/ (at least
for future releases).

-Ian

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 11:25 AM, dave fournier <davef at otter-rsch.com>wrote:

> On 12-03-26 11:18 AM, Arni Magnusson wrote:
>
>>
>> The meaning of the term MinGW is murky indeed ... an umbrella project for
>> anything that makes Windows more similar to Linux. MinGW offers products
>> that include (1) GCC that runs in the Dos shell, (2) many Linux-like
>> utilities that run in the Dos shell, and (3) a full-blown Linux emulator.
>> In a
>> With cross compilation (building binaries on platform A that run on
>> platform B or C, but won't run on A) the confusion starts for real. I
>> propose writing a DONTREADME.txt to cover that stuff.
>>
>
> Indeed! Here are typical names for version of ming cross compiler
> linux->windows
>
>
> i686-pc-mingw32-ar
> i686-pc-mingw32-as
> i686-pc-mingw32-c++
> i686-pc-mingw32-c++filt
> i686-pc-mingw32-cpp
> i686-pc-mingw32-dlltool
> i686-pc-mingw32-dllwrap
> i686-pc-mingw32-g++
> i686-pc-mingw32-gcc
> i686-pc-mingw32-gcc-4.4.2
> i686-pc-mingw32-gccbug
> i686-pc-mingw32-gcov
> i686-pc-mingw32-gprof
> i686-pc-mingw32-ld
> i686-pc-mingw32-nm
> i686-pc-mingw32-objcopy
> i686-pc-mingw32-objdump
> i686-pc-mingw32-pkg-config
> i686-pc-mingw32-ranlib
> i686-pc-mingw32-readelf
> i686-pc-mingw32-size
>
>
>
>
>
>> Arni
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 26 Mar 2012, Ian Taylor wrote:
>>
>>  Hi Developers,
>>>
>>> We currently have a confusing mix of terms to describe some of the
>>> compiler options for ADMB: "MinGW", "GCC", and "g++".
>>>
>>> Here's my understanding of the meaning of these terms:
>>>
>>>  - GCC currently refers to the Gnu Compiler Collection (formerly to the
>>>  GNU C Compiler).
>>>  - g++ is one of the compilers in GCC (the one that gets used for ADMB)
>>>  - MinGW is the Windows port of GCC
>>>
>>> Is it necessary to use all three terms?
>>>
>>> I'm trying to update Johnoel's old installation instructions to match
>>> the README file and would like to have things be throughout the ADMB
>>> project.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> -Ian
>>>
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