Dear Keith, Many thanks for your detailed reply. I guess I will just have to look for other avenues to create the Windows shared library perhaps by building on the target Windows platform if cross-compilation is not an option. Being just one man and a dog, I do not want to get mired down in having to have to learn a whole different IDE world such as Visual Studio so perhaps there something I can explore with the Linux subsystem that ships with Windows 10? Thanks again for your comments. -- Michael Ellis September 4, 2020 5:16 PM, "Keith Marshall" <keith****@users*****> wrote: > On 04/09/2020 14:28, Michael Ellis wrote: > >> What exactly is illegal? > > "mingw" (irrespective of any capitalization) is a US registered > trademark (reg. no. 86017856); it has been registered by SPI Inc., on > behalf of MinGW.org, and no other project, or organization, is legally > entitled to use the term "mingw" within their project or product names, > without seeking authorization from MinGW.org (which none have). > >> Is it the x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ cross compiler that I am using on my >> OS-X computer? > > The product name infringes the trademark. > >> I downloaded this using the "brew install mingw-w64" Is this program >> illegal? > > Once again, "mingw-w64" infringes the trademark. > >> If so, is there a legal cross compiler allowing me to build on OS-X >> and deeply on Windows? > > The only binaries, legally published by MinGW.org, are for a 32-bit > natively hosted Windows-32 GCC compiler suite; it simply isn't practical > for us to maintain binary releases, to support a plethora of non-Windows > cross-compiler platforms. > > That said, I do build my own mingw32 cross-compiler, for use on my Linux > hosts, and my build specs are included in the (modified) source tarball, > as published in MinGW.org FRS. If the distributors of binaries, built > for non-Windows host were building from our sources, then that would be > acceptable, but I don't think any do (and certainly, none have sought > the necessary authorization), so their use of "mingw", within their > product names, constitutes a trademark violation. > > -- > Regards, > Keith. > > Public key available from keys.gnupg.net > Key fingerprint: C19E C018 1547 DE50 E1D4 8F53 C0AD 36C6 347E 5A3F > > _______________________________________________ > MinGW-Users mailing list > MinGW****@lists***** > > This list observes the Etiquette found at > http://www.mingw.org/Mailing_Lists. > We ask that you be polite and do the same. Disregard for the list etiquette may cause your account > to be moderated. > > _______________________________________________ > You may change your MinGW Account Options or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.osdn.me/mailman/listinfo/mingw-users > Also: mailto:mingw****@lists*****?subject=unsubscribe Michael Ellis (Managing Director) Digital Scientific UK Ltd. http://www.dsuk.biz micha****@dsuk***** tel: +44(0)1223 911215 The Commercial Centre 6 Green End Cambridge
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