Remove MinGW support

The Issue
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For a long time now MinGW has been unsupported and unmaintained and at this point,
it looks like something that we should just leave behind and move on.


Why Remove
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One of the big motivations for MinGW back in the day is that it was free compared to MSVC which was licensed based.
However, now that this is no longer true we have basically stopped updating the need CMake files.
Along with the CMake files, there are several patches to the extern libs needed to make this work.  For example, see:
https://developer.blender.org/diffusion/B/browse/master/extern/carve/patches/mingw_w64.patch

If we wanted to keep MinGW then we would need to make more custom patches to the external libs and
this is not something our platform maintainers are willing to do.

For example, here is the patches needed to build python: https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/tree/master/mingw-w64-python3

Fixes T51301

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2648
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2017-05-27 15:34:55 -04:00
parent 275e2fb0ff
commit 9f044cb422
54 changed files with 105 additions and 725 deletions

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@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ def cmake_advanced_info():
def create_eclipse_project():
print("CMAKE_DIR %r" % CMAKE_DIR)
if sys.platform == "win32":
cmd = 'cmake "%s" -G"Eclipse CDT4 - MinGW Makefiles"' % CMAKE_DIR
raise Exception("Error: win32 is not supported")
else:
if make_exe_basename.startswith(("make", "gmake")):
cmd = 'cmake "%s" -G"Eclipse CDT4 - Unix Makefiles"' % CMAKE_DIR