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| author | Tony Theodore <tonyt@logyst.com> | 2017-02-01 13:03:08 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2017-02-01 13:03:08 (GMT) |
| commit | 8268bf6e9ea56fb959db6bb6291c088c0f5aa210 (patch) | |
| tree | 6f1e41190365c47f84bcbd7b9d28b8289f6f6137 | |
| parent | 64b6f660947996b4a52ccf3d6fda50b4b397663a (diff) | |
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Merge pull request #1208 from LuaAndC/targets-docs
index.html: add "How to choose MXE target"
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1 files changed, 31 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/docs/index.html b/docs/index.html index ac70b75..6b298ba 100644 --- a/docs/index.html +++ b/docs/index.html @@ -101,10 +101,13 @@ <h3>Supported Toolchains</h3> + <p> + Compiler and runtime: MinGW-w64. + </p> + <table id="supported-toolchains"> <tr> - <th rowspan="2">Runtime</th> - <th rowspan="2">Host Triplet</th> + <th rowspan="2">Target OS</th> <th colspan="2">Packages</th> </tr> <tr> @@ -112,13 +115,12 @@ <th>Shared</th> </tr> <tr> - <td rowspan="2">MinGW-w64</td> - <td>i686-w64-mingw32</td> + <td>32 bit Windows</td> <td style='text-align:center'>99% (379/381)</td> <td style='text-align:center'>72% (273/381)</td> </tr> <tr> - <td>x86_64-w64-mingw32</td> + <td>64 bit Windows</td> <td style='text-align:center'>94% (360/381)</td> <td style='text-align:center'>71% (271/381)</td> </tr> @@ -129,6 +131,30 @@ for individual packages. </p> <p> + Executables built for 32 bit Windows can be + executed on 64 bit Windows as well. + </p> + <p> + How to choose MXE target: + <ol> + <li>if you want a 64 bit Windows executable, + statically linked into one big executable: + use MXE_TARGET x86_64-w64-mingw32.static;</li> + <li>if you want a 64 bit Windows executable, + splitted in an executable and dependant dlls + use MXE_TARGET x86_64-w64-mingw32.shared;</li> + <li>if you want a 32 bit Windows executable, + statically linked into one big executable: + use MXE_TARGET i686-w64-mingw32.static;</li> + <li>if you want a 32 bit Windows executable, + splitted in an executable and dependant dlls + use MXE_TARGET i686-w64-mingw32.shared.</li> + </ol> + Remark: the 'w64-mingw32' in those names are left-overs from + historical evolutions in the open source cross-compilation world + and refer in no way to the result being 64 or 32 bit Windows. + </p> + <p> OpenMP (<a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/gomp/">libgomp</a>) and pthreads (<a href="http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/">winpthreads</a>) are always available. |