Microsoft Contributes Windows On ARM64 "aarch64-w64-mingw32" Support To GCC 15

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Microsoft Contributes Windows On ARM64 "aarch64-w64-mingw32" Support To GCC 15

Microsoft engineers have contributed Windows On ARM64 support to the upstream GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) with the new "aarch64-w64-mingw32" target...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-aarch64-w64-mingw32

[sophisticles]

You know what this means right?

NVIDIA's ARM based desktop CPU is almost here.

There have been rumors that MS was going to have an ARM build of Windows ready for the launch of NVIDIA's CPU's, and with these contributions to the open source compilers, MS is making sure that popular open source applications like Audacity, Shotcut, AviDemux, Handbrake, ffmpeg, Libre Office and others, can be built to run on this new Windows and new processors.

I can not wait, we may be only a couple of years away from the deprecation of the x86 ISA.

[Linuxhippy]

I can not wait, we may be only a couple of years away from the deprecation of the x86 ISA.

Actually except from Intel's monopoly on x86, who cares - the only extra cost x86 adds is the need for a rather complex decoder and a bit tight memory ordering.

[sarmad]

Is this to enable targeting ARM Windows builds from a Linux machine, i.e. cross compiling?

[davidbepo]

You know what this means right?

NVIDIA's ARM based desktop CPU is almost here.

There have been rumors that MS was going to have an ARM build of Windows ready for the launch of NVIDIA's CPU's, and with these contributions to the open source compilers, MS is making sure that popular open source applications like Audacity, Shotcut, AviDemux, Handbrake, ffmpeg, Libre Office and others, can be built to run on this new Windows and new processors.

I can not wait, we may be only a couple of years away from the deprecation of the x86 ISA.

LMAO, you can keep dreaming
meanwhile in reality, the only WOA push is for the qualcomm/nuvia laptop chip

[geerge]

You know what this means right?

NVIDIA's ARM based desktop CPU is almost here.

There have been rumors that MS was going to have an ARM build of Windows ready for the launch of NVIDIA's CPU's, and with these contributions to the open source compilers, MS is making sure that popular open source applications like Audacity, Shotcut, AviDemux, Handbrake, ffmpeg, Libre Office and others, can be built to run on this new Windows and new processors.

I can not wait, we may be only a couple of years away from the deprecation of the x86 ISA.

Can't we keep x86 until risc-v is ready? It's like moving house, I kind of only want to do it once more before I die.

[brad0]

You know what this means right?

NVIDIA's ARM based desktop CPU is almost here.

There have been rumors that MS was going to have an ARM build of Windows ready for the launch of NVIDIA's CPU's, and with these contributions to the open source compilers, MS is making sure that popular open source applications like Audacity, Shotcut, AviDemux, Handbrake, ffmpeg, Libre Office and others, can be built to run on this new Windows and new processors.

I can not wait, we may be only a couple of years away from the deprecation of the x86 ISA.

So beyond delusional.

[archkde]

Actually except from Intel's monopoly on x86, who cares - the only extra cost x86 adds is the need for a rather complex decoder and a bit tight memory ordering.

Intel does not have an x86 monopoly, at least AMD makes fine x86 chips too. And increasingly more patents are expiring.

[BesiegedAce]

Insert obligatory EEE mention despite it not really applying

[edxposed]

Is this to enable targeting ARM Windows builds from a Linux machine, i.e. cross compiling?

This is one of the use cases, and you can also choose to use it for Windows native compilation. But everyone at WoA already uses clang and gcc has no advantage.