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authorAllen Byrne <byrn@hdfgroup.org>2019-07-23 21:21:07 (GMT)
committerAllen Byrne <byrn@hdfgroup.org>2019-07-23 21:21:07 (GMT)
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HDFFV-10845 update note
-rw-r--r--release_docs/RELEASE.txt8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
index a64abc8..fe40021 100644
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@@ -57,12 +57,16 @@ New Features
(ADB - 2019/07/17, HDFFV-100424)
- - Add mingw support with toolchain file
+ - Add mingw CMake support with a toolchain file
There has been a number of mingw issues that has been linked under
HDFFV-10845. It has been decided to implement the CMake cross-compiling
technique of toolchain files. We will use a linux platform with the mingw
- compiler stack for testing.
+ compiler stack for testing. Only the C language is fully supported, and
+ the error tests are skipped. The C++ language works for static but shared
+ builds has a shared library issue with the mingw Standard Exception Handling
+ library, which is not available on Windows. Fortran has a common cross-compile
+ problem with the fortran configure tests.
(ADB - 2019/07/12, HDFFV-10845, HDFFV-10595)