JPEG-XL and upgrading MinGW GCC

[Halla Rempt]

On vrijdag 11 maart 2022 08:35:23 CET Alvin Wong wrote:
> On the other hand, I was suggested the llvm-mingw toolchain [1] by 
> someone working with Clang. This toolchain is interesting because it is 
> LLVM-based and uses libc++ and ucrt (but there is an option for msvcrt), 
> which resembles the `CLANG64` MSYS2 environment. Not only that, but it 
> also includes cross compilers for i686 (x86 / 32-bit Intel) and aarch64 
> (arm64). We may be able to adapt our build system to make x86 and arm64 
> Windows builds using this toolchain. I am trying to make a build with 
> this toolchain as I am writing this message. What do you think of this?

Making an arm build for windows... Sort of okay, though I'm not sure it's really worth the effort. But I really don't want to release 32 bits builds of Krita for Windows. People _will_ try to make gigantic images with those builds, fail and complain bitterly. 

Halla