Hello folks, I have tried it. I am just not certain, if it has worked or not and if I was close and just didn't know. It took me an hour or so creating a few constructors so that type ambiguities are handled. Then left it as the tests crashed and I couldn't really spot the error. Segmentation error type of errors. Then I had to go on with my work and didn't test more. If anyone's interested in the branch and the patch, I'd be too happy to make them available. It's a while back though. Cheers, Kaveh. On 4 Feb 2011, at 21:32, Alexei Sheplyakov wrote:
Hi, Jan!
I tried to compile CLN with MinGW 64-bit (compilation for 32bit works fine).
libtool: compile: x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../autoconf -I../include -I../src -I../include -I../src -g -O2 -MT cl_alloca.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/cl_alloca.Tpo -c base/cl_alloca.cc -o cl_alloca.o In file included from ./base/cl_sysdep.h:10:0, from base/cl_alloca.cc:4: ../include/cln/intparam.h:26:2: error: #error "Type char * does not fit into a long!!" In file included from ../include/cln/types.h:10:0, from ./base/cl_macros.h:6, from ./base/cl_sysdep.h:56, from base/cl_alloca.cc:4: ../include/cln/intparam.h:26:2: error: #error "Type char * does not fit into a long!!" base/cl_alloca.cc: In function 'cln::cl_alloca_header* cln::cl_alloc_alloca_header(size_t)': base/cl_alloca.cc:20:40: error: cast from 'long int*' to 'long int' loses precision make[1]: *** [cl_alloca.lo] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jan/mingw/cln/src' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
CLN (and in fact many other software packages) assumes that sizeof(void*) == sizeof(long). This assumption worked since ever, on every hardware and software platform... until win64 designers decided to break it.
If someone wants to port CLN to such a weird platform -- well, good luck. Patches are always welcome.
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