[CoinBinary] Building JNI-based under MinGW

[Ted Ralphs]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:19 AM, <acw at ascent.com> wrote:

> Perhaps I spoke too soon; I've done a little more research since I sent
> yesterday's message.  If I have not misunderstood the case, Microsoft is
> still clinging to SjLj; their compiler suite produces binaries that use
> SjLj, and so their system libraries are all SjLj-based.  Furthermore, Dw2
> code cannot inter-operate with SjLj, so for the moment, anything that runs
> in a Windows environment must be SjLj from cover to cover.  (This isn't
> quite accurate: the restriction is that a Dw2-style exception can't unwind
> through an SjLj stack frame, like a Windows callback.) So, at least for the
> Windows target, it is probably premature to try compiling to Dw2.  In Unix
> and Linux, however, Dw2 is probably worth trying for the potential
> performance gain.
>

As far as I understand (and my understanding is very rudimentary on this
topic), Dw2 is the default on Linux. Is it not?


> In other news, I found a compiler suite called TDM-GCC, under active
> development at least as late as last September, which claims to produce
> SjLj binaries for both the 32-bit and 64-bit Windows environment.  When
> things settle down here a bit I intend to try their wares: see
> http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/ for more details.


This looks promising! Thanks for bringing it to my attention!

Ted
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