From: Warren Young
Date: June 26 2007 12:08am
Subject: Re: Recent changes to coldata.h
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Joel Fielder wrote:
> Just a quick one! Rebuilding (on mingw) from SVN after the recent wad of
> changes:

Thanks for checking!  I'd begun to think I'd never hear about MinGW 
breakages until after a release...

> lib/coldata.h:177: error: there are no arguments to `data' that depend
> on a template parameter, so a declaration of `data' must be available
> lib/coldata.h:328: error: there are no arguments to `data' that depend
> on a template parameter, so a declaration of `data' must be available
> lib/coldata.h:328: error: there are no arguments to `length' that depend
> on a template parameter, so a declaration of `length' must be available
> 
> Just needs Str::data() and Str::length() respectively.

That's weak....I wonder why we don't hear about this problem on other 
GCCs?  The standard CentOS builds use versions bracketing the official 
MinGW version.  I guess it was just a temporary breakdown in the 
compiler's understanding of the language, and everyone else is past it now.

With MinGW seeming to stagnate, I wonder if using Cygwin's gcc with 
--mno-cygwin is a better option?