mingw-binutils: Segmentation fault & newer version

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 24, 2011, at 05:43, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> I'm experiencing a nasty problem with cross-compiler. I'm using 64-bit
> Mac OS X 10.6.6 with macports and
> 
>> i386-mingw32-g++ --version
> i386-mingw32-g++ (GCC) 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r2)
>> i386-mingw32-ld --version
> GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.19.1

> But I would be very very very grateful if somebody from this mailing
> list could either:
> - explain me how exactly to compile binutils
> - or how to create a new port that would fetch binutils 2.21 instead
> of 2.19.1 and what command to execute to replace the old version with
> the latest one
> - or (even better): send me a more recent ld binary for x86_64

Since we're in MacPorts land here, you should probably file a ticket in our issue tracker and request that the maintainer update the i386-mingw32-binutils port to a newer version.