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Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 12:40:19 -0500
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Subject: Re: cygwin64 install g++ v 4.6.4
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On 2014-05-29 03:58, David Stacey wrote:
> On 29/05/14 05:19, Philapol wrote:
>> I would like to install g++ v 4.6.4 under cygwin64 but only v 4.8.2 is
>> available. What is the procedure to install this older version?
>
> 64-bit Cygwin is relatively new, and the earliest version of gcc that
> was built for 64-bit was gcc-4.8.0 (IIRC). If you need an older version
> then you would have to build it yourself from source.

Not likely; the requisite Win64 SEH support was only introduced in 4.8, 
so building an earlier version simply isn't going to work.

> But as others have pointed out, your time would be better spent maintaining
> the code so that it compiles with a more modern compiler.

+1.  Unless you can *prove* that there is a bug in GCC (which does 
occasionally happen, granted), then this is usually the answer to this 
sort of question.


Yaakov


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