Comment 2 for bug 1338043

Thanks Stephen, glad you saw this.

So it looks like I got a set of debs built okay from the source package without much trouble. I changed --enable-threads from posix to win32 in debian/rules, and deleted the line that said --enable-sjlj-exceptions. The gcc-mingw-w64-i686/usr/lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/4.8 build result has an sjlj libgcc_s, and no libwinpthread. I also had to change debian/gcc-mingw-w64-x86-64.install to fix the 64 bit filename to now be libgcc_s_seh-1.dll.

I'll give these debs I just built a try. Will take a while to rebuild the library I'm interested in at the moment, it has a bunch of big dependencies.

You know better than I in terms of the best way to eventually set it up. But I'd be interested to see what it might look like from an end-user standpoint. Would alternatives be used to switch the default linker script between multiple options, possibly?