How to set up GCC 4.5.x?
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| Hi everyone! Can someone please give me a small guide on how to set this up under Windows 7 to work with bmx? Thanks in advance. Grisu |
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| This is what I did.. (Running Windows 7, x64... Use at your own risk, yaddah yaddah yaddah) - Back up existing MinGW install - Go to this site: http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/download downloaded the win32 sjlj release (direct link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tdm-gcc/files/TDM-GCC%20Installer/tdm-gcc-4.5.0.exe/download - run the installer, and pick a version (c/c++ should do, don't select the dw2 release) - from the installation mingw\bin folder, copy ar.exe and ld.exe to your blitzmax\bin folder (back up the existing ones first of course) - Back up Blitzmax\lib, and overwrite the existing files with their copies from your new mingw\lib folder with the same names - Make sure that your new MinGW install is added to the path, just like the 'standard' MinGW install would be. - After you set everthing up properly, the MaxIDE should now show GCC version 4.5 in the MaxIDE 'about' screen. (You can also check this by running gcc -v from a command prompt) - Rebuild all modules, or you may run into unexpected issues... blitzmax\bin\bmk makemods -a * blitzmax\bin\bmk makemods -a -h * |
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| Thanks for the fast reply. Works! I even get a lower memory usage on my app?!  |
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| Sidenote: Upx won't work with MinGW 4.5.0 built executables. You get an error: 'CantPackException: TLS callbacks are not supported' error. |
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| by the way.. There are good packers like upx? It can be commercial.. (but please not over 9000 ..) |
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| Update: GCC 4.5.1 is here... :) @ShadowTurtle: If I got your question right: UPX is free and I don't know of any other good exectuable packers. For other stuff you can use a zip module. |
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| If anyone has other problems with setup, this might be useful: I downloaded 4.5.1 TDM and got the following complaints when doing "bmk makemods -a" 1. gcc complained about "gcc createprocess" Copying mingw\libexec\gcc\mingw32\4.5.1\" into "MinGW\bin" solved this. 2. When compiling modules it stopped on the missing files stddef, cstdarg and c++config. Solved this by searching for the files. Found them in MinGW\lib\gcc\mingw32\4.5.1 and then copied them to MinGW\include I don't know if this is correct... But rebuilding all modules now works, and my bmx programs seem to work fine. |
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| GCC 4.5.2 was released: http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/download |
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