Drop references to obsolete MinGW 1.x (gcc 2.95)

There are know issues with that compiler versions, and the necessary
fixes are no longer readily available, so stop claiming this is still
a supported compiler.  Just require gcc 3.2.x or later everywhere for
MinGW support.

diff --git a/README.win32 b/README.win32
index 5afafc5..2b3cbbd 100644 (file)
--- a/README.win32
+++ b/README.win32
@@ -41,15 +41,14 @@ following compilers on the Intel x86 architecture:
 
       Borland C++             version 5.02 or later
       Microsoft Visual C++    version 6.0 or later
-      Gcc by mingw.org        gcc version 2.95.2 or later
+      Gcc by mingw.org        gcc version 3.2 or later
       Gcc by mingw-w64.sf.net gcc version 4.4.3 or later
 
 Note that the last two of these are actually competing projects both
 delivering complete gcc toolchain for MS Windows:
 
 - http://mingw.org - delivers gcc toolchain targeting 32-bit Windows
-  platform.  Use version 3.2.x or later for the best results with this
-  compiler.
+  platform.
 
 - http://mingw-w64.sf.net - delivers gcc toolchain targeting both 64-bit
   Windows and 32-bit Windows platforms (despite the project name "mingw-w64"
@@ -326,55 +325,13 @@ shells available after you install the Platform SDK from the Start Menu.
 
 =item MinGW release 3 with gcc
 
-The latest release of MinGW at the time of writing is 3.1.0, which contains
-gcc-3.2.3.  It can be downloaded here:
+Perl can be compiled with gcc from MinGW release 3 and later (using gcc 3.2.x
+and later).  It can be downloaded here:
 
     http://www.mingw.org/
 
-Perl also compiles with earlier releases of gcc (2.95.2 and up).  See below
-for notes about using earlier versions of MinGW/gcc.
-
-And perl also compiles with gcc-4.3.0 and up, and perhaps even some of the
-earlier 4.x.x versions.
-
 You also need dmake.  See L</"Make"> above on how to get it.
 
-=item MinGW release 1 with gcc
-
-The MinGW-1.1 bundle contains gcc-2.95.3.
-
-Make sure you install the binaries that work with MSVCRT.DLL as indicated
-in the README for the GCC bundle.  You may need to set up a few environment
-variables (usually ran from a batch file).
-
-There are a couple of problems with the version of gcc-2.95.2-msvcrt.exe
-released 7 November 1999:
-
-=over
-
-=item *
-
-It left out a fix for certain command line quotes.  To fix this, be sure
-to download and install the file fixes/quote-fix-msvcrt.exe from the above
-ftp location.
-
-=item *
-
-The definition of the fpos_t type in stdio.h may be wrong.  If your
-stdio.h has this problem, you will see an exception when running the
-test t/lib/io_xs.t.  To fix this, change the typedef for fpos_t from
-"long" to "long long" in the file i386-mingw32msvc/include/stdio.h,
-and rebuild.
-
-=back
-
-A potentially simpler to install (but probably soon-to-be-outdated) bundle
-of the above package with the mentioned fixes already applied is available
-here:
-
-    http://downloads.ActiveState.com/pub/staff/gsar/gcc-2.95.2-msvcrt.zip
-    ftp://ftp.ActiveState.com/pub/staff/gsar/gcc-2.95.2-msvcrt.zip
-
 =back
 
 =head2 Building
@@ -1007,6 +964,6 @@ Win9x support was added in 5.6 (Benjamin Stuhl).
 
 Support for 64-bit Windows added in 5.8 (ActiveState Corp).
 
-Last updated: 29 August 2007
+Last updated: 6 August 2010
 
 =cut

diff --git a/win32/makefile.mk b/win32/makefile.mk
index 01c177a..6d03da2 100644 (file)
--- a/win32/makefile.mk
+++ b/win32/makefile.mk
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Supported compilers:
 #      Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 or later
 #      Borland C++ 5.02 or later
-#      MinGW with gcc-2.95.2 or later
+#      MinGW with gcc-3.2 or later
 #      Windows SDK 64-bit compiler and tools **experimental**
 #
 # This is set up to build a perl.exe that runs off a shared library
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ USE_LARGE_FILES     *= define
 #CCTYPE                *= MSVC90
 # Borland 5.02 or later
 #CCTYPE                *= BORLAND
-# MinGW or mingw-w64 with gcc-2.95.2 or later
+# MinGW or mingw-w64 with gcc-3.2 or later
 CCTYPE         *= GCC
 
 #