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Message #34857
Re: KiCad 5 RC1 fails to build on mips, powerpc and ppc64el due undeclared initializer LIBCONTEXT_CALL_CONVENTION
On 09/03/18 20:05, Simon Richter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 03/09/2018 07:45 AM, Carsten Schoenert wrote:
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>> The platforms mips, powerpc and ppc64el fails to build because of an
>> issue on the same file. There may be more platforms with this issue due
>> a not created initializer.
>
> We have an assembler blob in the code that replaces Boost.Context,
> because they had trouble keeping their API stable.
>
> For MSVC, I've backed out these changes and had no problems, except when
> linking against Boost 1.61 — newer versions work.
Hi Simon,
Many thanks, I'll give it a try over the weekend. I'm fed up with gdb
and general sluggishness of mingw...
Tom
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