[GEM-dev] nightly builds using Gem build system

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jul 18, 2011, at 4:17 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

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> On 2011-07-16 23:28, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
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>> I switched the Pd-extended build system to use the Gem build system
>> directly for everything, including 'make install' and Windows/ 
>> MinGW.  I
>> just fixed one small MinGW build bug, and am now installing Quicktime
>> 7.3 SDK on the Windows build machine.
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> great.
>
> however, i don't understand your "tweaked configure flags for Gem on
> MinGW" commit that does:
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> +		--disable-mmx \
> +		--enable-sse2 \
> </snip>
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> why would you want to disable "MMX" if you are enabling "SSE2"?


I was under the impression that SSE2 replaces MMX, and that if you're  
using SSE2, you should not use MMX at all.  But I could be wrong.  If  
anyone knows better than me, please adjust accordingly.

.hc


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