Move GCC/G++ runtime dlls into extra package(s)

[Michael Müller]

Hi,

I am currently working on a project which distributes a helper program to run browser plugins through Wine. This project uses a binary which is compiled with g++-mingw-w64-i686 and I came across the problem that the runtime dlls (libgcc_s_sjlj-1.dll, libspp-0.dll, libstdc++-6.dll) are not available as an extra package and I need to put a dependency on the g++-mingw-w64-i686 and gcc-mingw-w64-i686 packages. This will install the whole cross compiler environment for everybody who wants to use my program just to get 3 dlls.

I would therefore suggest to move the needed runtime dlls into something like g++-mingw-w64-i686-runtime and gcc-mingw-w64-i686-runtime, so that the binary packages which are meant for execution through Wine do not need to install several hundred megabytes of dependencies.

Michael

[Stephen Kitt (steve-sk2)]

Hi,

That does seem reasonable; I'll probably follow the general gcc packaging approach and provide libstdc++6-mingw-w64-i686 and so on.

Regards,

Stephen

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gcc-mingw-w64 - 24

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gcc-mingw-w64 (24) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Following MSYS2 and Fedora’s example (among others), switch from SJLJ
    exception handling to Dwarf2; this will help the Rust toolchain in
    particular. Closes: #540782.
  * Rename binary-without-manpage override to no-manual-page.
  * Install ada_target_properties files.

 -- Stephen Kitt <email address hidden> Sat, 21 Nov 2020 15:01:02 +0100