Release 2.0.1

Sync libtool patches to what is currently used at SSI.

Release 2.0.0

Support up to Visual Studio 2019 (MSVC 16), and Visual Studio Build Tools.

Drop support for Visual Studio 2003 and older. Visual Studio 2005 (MSVC 8.0)
is the oldest one that still does run on Windows 10.

Support x86_64 (64bit) MSVC Toolchain.

Switch to Cygwin as build system, Interix and MSVC are unlikely to still work.

Use host triplet to identify the local MSVC Toolchain arch and version to be
used, and also to distinguish the MSVC runtime library variant. For example:
32bit (x86) dynamic multithreaded runtime: i686-msvc16-winnt
32bit (x86) static multithreaded runtime: i686-libcmt-winnt
64bit (x64) dynamic multithreaded debug runtime: x86_64-msvcd16-winnt
64bit (x64) static multithreaded debug runtime: x86_64-libcmtd16-winnt

Create symbolic links to MSVC import libraries, to avoid path components being
invalid as shell string (containing blanks or parentheses), for when the 8dot3
filename generation is disabled on the underlying file system.

Identify available Visual Studio or Build Tools instances using the registry
(pre VC15) or vswhere.exe (since VC15) rather than environment variables.

Provide environment values to be used when using MSVC toolchain without
parity, using the "parity-setup --get-environ i686-msvc16-winnt" command.

Disable concept of default MSVC versions, is hard to maintain. You always have
to use an MSVC version as part of the CHOST value.

Toolchain wrappers are installed as real executables, so the can run even from
within native Win32 build systems.

Support binary packaging of parity (using DESTDIR). Compiling the runtime libs
requiring local MSVC is done using the new parity-setup script after install.

Provide more POSIX/MinGW based wrappers: cpp, nm, strip (as noop), windres.

Provide more MSVC based wrappers (cmd, dumpbin, lib, nmake, rc), for build
systems that know about the MS toolchain when available via env vars.

Provide libtool patches, creating NAME.lib as the import library along
NAME.dll, and creating libNAME.lib as the static library. This implies
searching for NAME.lib upon the -lNAME linker option.

Support distinct binary packages per CHOST value, to have parity-setup enable
or disable installed CHOST values only rather than all the compiled in ones.
To be enabled using the --enable-binpkg-per-chost configure option.

Provide an exemplary parity.cygport, for building Cygwin binary packages.

parity.runtime: Stop switching stdio to binmode, almost everyone does expect
and can handle textmode with native winnt programs these days.

parity.runtime: Try to run cygpath from PATH for path conversion rather than
trying to dynamically load cygwin1.dll.

parity.runtime: Provide stdint.h, not available in older MSVC versions.

parity.runtime: Provide stdbool.h, not available before VS 2012.

parity.runtime: Provide stdarg.h, lacks va_copy() before VS 2012.

parity.runtime: Switch to StackWalk64 API when creating a backtrace.

parity.runtime: Have pid_t of type int, to allow for using pthreads4w
(https://sourceforge.net/projects/pthreads4w/).

parity.runtime: Provide clock_gettime(), wrapping timespec_get().

parity.loader: Stop caching dll handles. Provide dlclose() instead.

parity.gnu.gcc: Support the -include file option.

parity.gnu.gcc: Support --define, --undefine options.

parity.gnu.gcc: Support -std=c++XX and -ansi compiler options.

parity.gnu.gcc: Distinguish -Dmacro (value 1) from -Dmacro= (empty value).

parity.gnu.gcc: Distinguish --version from -v compiler option.

parity.gnu.gcc: Support -dumpmachine, -dumpversion, -print-prog-name,
-print-search-dirs commandline options.

parity.gnu.gcc: Improve support for assembly (.S) files.

parity.gnu.ld: Support Module Definition (.def) files when linking.

parity.gnu.ld: Support -Wl,--out-implib linker flag.

parity.gnu.ld: Upon -lNAME, search for NAME.dll.lib, as created by MinGW.

parity.gnu.as: Relax from /Cp to /Cx assembler (ml.exe) flag.

parity.gnu.as: Run C preprocessor before assembling, the preprocessor
available within ml.exe uses a different syntax.

parity.ms.cl: Distinguish /c from /cygdrive/path compiler arguments.

Release 1.3.0

This release adds support for REX (https://github.com/mduft/rex). This allows to run parity on a Linux host to compile windows binaries remotely on a windows box.