Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 14:17:24 -0400 From: Chris Faylor To: Charles Wilson Cc: cygwin Subject: Re: Rules for building apps [was Re: runtime failure in 20000710 and 20000711 snapshots] Message-ID: <20000713141724.A32128@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Mail-Followup-To: Charles Wilson , cygwin References: <396D364D.6A019EC1@ece.gatech.edu> <396DC0C4.CA694EB7@cygnus.com> <396DE43E.FCC6B59F@ece.gatech.edu> <396DE96B.FB70F492@ece.gatech.edu> <20000713121303.A9309@cygnus.com> <396E07DE.65080A05@ece.gatech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <396E07DE.65080A05@ece.gatech.edu>; from cwilson@ece.gatech.edu on Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 02:18:06PM -0400 On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 02:18:06PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: >[cross-posted to cygwin-apps] > >Chris Faylor wrote: >> > >> >Is it expected that programs/dlls compiled with the new (20000711 and >> >later) libcygwin.a will fail with older installations? >> >> If by "older installations" you mean "snapshots after 1.1.2", then yes. > >Yes, that is what I meant. > >Thank you for the detailed explanation. I read the cygwin-developer >archives, but sometimes for us "outsiders" the forest gets hidden by the >trees. > >> Throughout all of this, however, I expect that executables built in the >> last two years will still work correctly with any snapshot. That's my >> goal for 1.1.3, at least. I also expect that when 1.1.3 is released, >> executables linked with libcygwin.a will work correctly with 1.1.2. >> They just will not be able to take advantage of some new functionality >> in 1.1.3. > >So, if I'm compiling a library or application that will be included in >'latest' or 'contrib' on sourceware, I should follow these rules: The rule is really simple. Don't build applications for public use with snapshots. I always use the last released version of cygwin and gcc to build my stuff. If you use snapshots you have no idea what dependencies you're introducing into the executables. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com