Luis Dallos

> I want to ammend an interesting finding. > > I can successfully compile PCH using gcc 12.2 Rev1 provided by MSYS2, either used in MSY2 terminal or bare CMD...

Last working beta is `0.9.3+.1295-Beta-a4f1ef`. Next beta (`0.9.3+.1296-Beta-be5a5c`) and newer - including latest beta `v1.2.0-Beta-2016-0aa246` - give black screen.

> I confirm that the error is gone, but compilation is still slow. > 30 sec : winlibs gcc-13.1.0-mingw-w64msvcrt-11.0.0-r3 > 30 sec : winlibs gcc-13.1.0-mingw-w64ucrt-11.0.0-r3 > 10 sec : msys2...

> Can you try one of the following builds which I made with those optimization flags? > > * https://github.com/brechtsanders/winlibs_mingw/releases/tag/13.1.0-11.0.0-ucrt-r4b > > * https://github.com/brechtsanders/winlibs_mingw/releases/tag/13.1.0-11.0.0-msvcrt-r4b I have done some compile time...

> What exactly is the benefit of the `-Wl,--no-insert-timestamp` flag? The `-Wl,--no-insert-timestamp` linker flag is useful to get reproducible builds on Windows. Useful to avoid situations such as the Binutils...

> Okay, the latest builds (my computer has been busy tonight) include linker flag `-Wl,--no-insert-timestamp` both when building GCC and binutils: > > * https://github.com/brechtsanders/winlibs_mingw/releases/tag/13.1.0-16.0.5-11.0.0-msvcrt-r5 > > * https://github.com/brechtsanders/winlibs_mingw/releases/tag/13.1.0-16.0.5-11.0.0-ucrt-r5 >...

About the compilation speed issue, I have done some more tests by compiling ccache 4.7.4 (2 make jobs, no redis support, tests disabled). Compilation speeds are practically the same in...

> About `-Wl,--no-insert-timestamp`, if it doesn't work than maybe that's a GCC bug? I tested GCC by building xz-utils (which - like GCC and Binutils - uses autoconf as its...