Re: Python recompile

On 08/03/2025 17:29, Michael S wrote:

On Fri, 07 Mar 2025 12:15:42 -0800
Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> wrote:

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     GCC contains support for x86-64 using the mingw-w64 runtime
library, available from https://www.mingw-w64.org/downloads/. This
library should be used with the target triple x86_64-pc-mingw32.
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The gcc compiler that I use on Windows most of the time has different
tripple: x86_64-w64-mingw32
It is a native Window program for AMD64 (a.k.a. x86_64) architecture
that generates likewise objects/exe.
I am not sure about the meaning of the 3rd part of the triple.
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 I think nobody does. There's always been some sort of mystique surrounding 'gcc' on Windows.
 'MinGW' supposedly 'Minimalist Gnu on Windows'. In that case I wouldn't like to see the full-scale one..

 My gcc installation 14.1 takes up nearly 0.9GB; don't ask me how much of that, if any, is 'MinGW'. My view is all mentions of 'MinGW' could be removed at a stroke, and nothing would really change: you'd still have a compiler called 'gcc' that can compile C programs for an x64 Win64 ABI target.
 Newer gcc's I now obtain from winlibs.com (ones like TDM are stuck at 10.2). On that site, it explains something about MingW, although I still don't really get it:
 https://winlibs.com/philosophy.html