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Bug#624533: [mingw32-ocaml] please provide mingw-w64-ocaml



Package: mingw32-ocaml
Version: 3.12.0+debian2
Severity: wishlist

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The current mingw32-ocaml uses the old gcc-mingw32 package.
In unstable we have gcc-mingw-w64 lately which can build both win32 and
win64 binaries, and is based on a more recent GCC (4.5.2).

It would be good if at least the 32-bit part of mingw32-ocaml would use
the new mingw from unstable. If it works it'd be awesome if it could
also use the 64-bit part of mingw to cross-compile to win64.

The compilers are called:
i686-w64-mingw32-gcc
x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc

I did a quick test with the Debian package:
edit debian/control, and replace gcc-mingw32 with mingw-w64-dev in
Build-Depends, and replace both gcc-mingw32 and mingw32-runtime with
gcc-mingw-w64 (which depends on binutils-w64)

$ find debian/ -type f -exec  sed -ie
's/i586-mingw32msvc/i686-w64-mingw32/' {} \;
$ dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc

The package built successfully (on amd64, it probably would on x86-32
too, didn't try), and a quick test shows that a hello world builds with
the brand new i686-w64-mingw32-ocamlopt.

--- System information. ---
Architecture: amd64
Kernel:       Linux 2.6.39-rc4-phenom

Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  500 unstable        ftp.ro.debian.org
  500 unstable        ftp.lug.ro
  500 testing         security.debian.org
  500 testing         ftp.ro.debian.org
  500 stable          ftp.ro.debian.org
    1 experimental    ftp.ro.debian.org

--- Package information. ---
Depends               (Version) | Installed
===============================-+-============
lib32ncurses5       (>= 5.5-5~) | 5.9-1
libc6                  (>= 2.7) | 2.13-0exp5
libc6-i386             (>= 2.7) | 2.13-0exp5
ocaml-nox                       | 3.12.0-5
ocaml-findlib                   | 1.2.6+debian-1+b1
gcc-mingw32                     |
mingw32-runtime                 | 3.13-1


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