Re: [boost] [1.51][Release] Short release cycle

Subject: Re: [boost] [1.51][Release] Short release cycle
From: Nathan Ridge (zeratul976_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-07-06 20:45:49

> On Thursday, 5. July 2012 20:00:48 Oliver Kowalke wrote:
> > The syntax could be transformed into NASM syntax but the problem is that
> > each assembler has its own syntax and
> > I beleive it is likly that I'm faced to requests to support assembler
> > 'xyz' on platform 'abc' too.
>
> Yes, I can understand where this might lead to.
>
> > Therefore I decided to support only a standard assembler on a platform.
> > (MASM is distributed with the Windows SDKs)
>
> And there are people out there not using the SDK, but mingw-w64. And the
> interesting question is: How do I cross-compile Boost.Context from Linux to
> Windows? Setting up an Wine driven MASM call and linking the resulting files
> with a cross-gcc/clang toolchain might be a real challenge.
>
> I can fully understand not to support every compiler/assembler combination. I
> think that gcc/clang and gas are special cases especially when considering
> cross compilation.

+1

Regards,
Nate