Re: is Vax addressing sane today

Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> writes:

Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> schrieb:

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I am currently in the position of needing to take some code
written for Linux/Unix and get it running in MS Windows.
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My attempts to use MSVC have been frustrating, because of some
limitations of that environment.  The two most prominent are
these:  long double is only 64 bits, and there are no integer
types of 128 bits that I could find.

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Depending on what you need to to, you can give MinGW-w64 a try.
It works either as a cross-compiler from Linux or on Windows using
msys2 or Cygwin.

Thank you for these suggestions.  I have started to explore
mingw but not yet the others.  Is there a difference between
mingw and mingw-w64, do you know?  Also do you know if mingw
is compatible with MSVC, as long as long double is not used?
(The code being ported would never call MSVC with a long double
or 128-bit integer argument.)

Personally, I like Cygwin best because it gives you access to the
usual UNIX tools like make or emacs, and you can immediately run
the executable.  I just add -static-libgfortran for Fortran code
to avoid the hassle of distributing a DLL with it.

Running make and emacs in MS Windows...  I like it!

Even gdb works.

That says a lot about the effort that went into Cygwin.