JPEG-XL and upgrading MinGW GCC

[L. E. Segovia]

Forget about 32-bit builds, G'MIC will render those useless because of 
sheer memory exhaustion. As for aarch64, I know it works on Linux and on 
Android-- never tried on Windows because afaik it's only supported by 
Surfaces. So we'd need to go the cross-compilation route and... eeek.

(TBH, it should the same for crosscompiling aarch64 on Linux, if one 
doesn't want to endure QEMU. But I was never able to get it to work.)

On 11/03/2022 07:54, Halla Rempt wrote:
> 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
> 
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