cm3-boot-AMD64_MINGW-d5.11.2-20210623

[jaykrell]

This is the first AMD64_MINGW release.
It was an exceedingly small amount of work, building on the C backend.

Prerequisites:
Get Python2 working, such as with:
Install Python2 from somewhere such as python.org or activestate.com or apt-get.
Sometimes required: Install Python from Windows Store. For py.exe. i.e. for msys2 host.

Have a mingw64 toolchain working and in path.
Specifically we need x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++.exe, though this is configurable.
The specific "host" of this toolchain does not matter.
It can be Cygwin, msys2, etc. I used msys2.

To produce the bootstrap:
Have a working cm3 on any platform. I generally use AMD64_NT but they are basically all the same. Linux should work.

  cd scripts/python
  ./boot1.py amd64_mingw # Maybe prefix with "py" e.g. on msys2.

To install the bootstrap:

  tar xf cm3-boot-AMD64_MINGW-d5.11.2-20210623.tgz
  cd cm3-boot-AMD64_MINGW-d5.11.2-20210623
  # Optionally review the top of Makefile
  make -j 
  # Test it, it should print an error about cm3.cfg:
  ./cm3.exe
  # See that debugging works:
  gdb ./cm3.exe
  break main
  r
  q
  # Install it somewhere:
  mkdir -p /c/cm3/bin
  mv cm3.exe /c/cm3/bin
  export PATH=/c/cm3/bin:$PATH
  cd ..
  # Build more. Maybe prefix next with "py" e.g. on msys2.
  ./boot2min.py amd64_mingw
  # Optionally, and again maybe with "py" at start.
  ./do-cm3-all.py buildship amd64_mingw

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