From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2010-10-07T21:01:06+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:32711] Re: [Ruby 1.9-Bug#3889] Incorrectly detected i686-w64-mingw32 as x64-mingw

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 3:33 AM, U.Nakamura <usa@garbagecollect.jp> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In message "[ruby-core:32695] [Ruby 1.9-Bug#3889] Incorrectly detected i686-w64-mingw32 as x64-mingw"
>
>> Who is the maintainer that provides "best effort" in relation to MinGW support? I would like to discuss this and future MinGW work without causing you guys lot of conflicts.
>
> Agree.
> The problem is not wanabe-san's revert, but a lack of responsibility
> of MinGW port.
>
> Currently, nobu is the maintainer of MinGW port.
> I know him well, and everyone knows that he is the special about
> hacking ruby.
> However, he is not living on Windows now.
> Moreover, he doesn't have 64bit Windows environment.
> I guess that it is too difficult to maintain it in such situation
> even if he is the special.
> We should change the current state in some shape.
>

Hello Mr. Nakamura,

Thank you for your answers.

I'm actively using MinGW/mingw-w64 in both native (Windows) and for
cross-compilation (Linux/OSX targeting Windows)

All the work towards 64bits Ruby under MinGW is still young, but all
the cross-compilation issues are needed right now to simplify things
for Ruby developers and their Windows support.

I'm willing to provide instructions to nobu so he can cross-compile
exactly the same way I'm doing from my OSX computer (or a Linux one,
doesn't matter)

As for the native versions, I would happily report issues and provide
patches to any encountered problem that blocks compilation or
execution, has been done already over the past years.

I will be very happy if all the existing issues for the which I
provided patches can be reviewed.

I'll happily accept become a maintainer if that is required to ensure
a proper MinGW support for Ruby.

Thank you.
-- 
Luis Lavena
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