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improve mingw toolchain#7203

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Summary of Changes

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This pull request refines the MinGW toolchain detection and configuration within Xmake. The primary goal is to standardize how target architecture information is handled, ensuring it's explicitly passed and utilized throughout the detection process. This change improves the flexibility and accuracy of MinGW toolchain identification, particularly for cross-compilation scenarios, by centralizing architecture-related logic and simplifying function parameter handling.

Highlights

  • Standardized Architecture Handling: The MinGW toolchain detection logic (_find_mingw) now explicitly accepts and utilizes an arch parameter, making architecture identification more robust and configurable across different build scenarios.
  • Refactored Function Signatures: The _find_mingw function has been refactored to accept a single opt table for all its parameters, including bindir, cross, msystem, and the newly introduced arch, which improves code readability and extensibility.
  • Improved Cross-Compilation Prefix Derivation: The MinGW toolchain configuration now includes logic to derive and set the target architecture (arch_set) if a cross-compilation prefix (cross) is already defined, enhancing consistency and reducing redundancy.

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This pull request improves the MinGW toolchain detection by making it architecture-aware. The changes refactor how the cross prefix and arch are determined, allowing the architecture to be derived from the cross-compiler prefix, which is a great enhancement for cross-compilation scenarios. The code is cleaner and more extensible. I've added a couple of suggestions to further improve the maintainability of the new logic by using data-driven approaches instead of long if/elseif chains.

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if toolchain:is_arch("x86_64", "x64") then
cross = "x86_64-w64-mingw32-"
elseif toolchain:is_arch("i386", "x86", "i686") then
cross = "i686-w64-mingw32-"
elseif toolchain:is_arch("arm64", "aarch64") then
cross = "aarch64-w64-mingw32-"
elseif toolchain:is_arch("armv7", "arm.*") then
cross = "armv7-w64-mingw32-"
end
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This if/elseif chain for determining the cross prefix from the architecture can be refactored into a loop over a configuration table. This would make the code more data-driven, easier to read, and more maintainable, especially if more architectures are supported in the future.

            local arch_to_cross_map = {
                {cross = "x86_64-w64-mingw32-", archs = {"x86_64", "x64"}},
                {cross = "i686-w64-mingw32-",   archs = {"i386", "x86", "i686"}},
                {cross = "aarch64-w64-mingw32-", archs = {"arm64", "aarch64"}},
                {cross = "armv7-w64-mingw32-",   archs = {"armv7", "arm.*"}}
            }
            for _, mapping in ipairs(arch_to_cross_map) do
                if toolchain:is_arch(table.unpack(mapping.archs)) then
                    cross = mapping.cross
                    break
                end
            end

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