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: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 20:34:27 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: Andy Piper Cc: "James N. Potts" , XEmacs NT List , cygwin@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: mingw32 build? Message-ID: <20010314203427.A29500@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Andy Piper , "James N. Potts" , XEmacs NT List , cygwin@sources.redhat.com References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010312161841.00df9850@san-francisco.beasys.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010314155309.00cc3ee0@san-francisco.beasys.com> <3AB017B2.2D87FCED@ece.gatech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <3AB017B2.2D87FCED@ece.gatech.edu>; from cwilson@ece.gatech.edu on Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 08:15:30PM -0500 [I hope I got the attribution right, here] At 05:26 PM 3/14/01 -0600, James N. Potts wrote: >I still ran into the cyggdbm problem, because configure finds the >cygnus version of gdbm and assumes it should use it. Building with >"--with-database=no" fixed that. Should this be the default for a >mingw32 build? > >Dunno. Really the cygnus folks should ship mingw equivalents of all of >these and disambiguate them somehow from the cygnus ones. Wow, I missed this somehow. Usually my nose hair quivers uncontrollably when I detect someone suggesting that I should do more work for them. Maybe this has been said already but mingw != cygwin. It's a separate project. We (i.e., I) do support limited mingw functionality in the compiler. That's all that we do. It's only good for Windows-specific compilations, AFAIK. So, unless some intrepid individual wants to contribute files and the method for installing files to the Cygwin project, I can guarantee you that the people at Red Hat will not be shipping anything extra. I will not accept mingw library distributions in the Cygwin distribution without some clear way of allowing people to avoid installing them. I don't see any reason to increase the size of the already large Cygwin distribution with things that many people will presumably never end up using. Accomodating this will undoubtedly require changes to the Cygwin setup program. Until then, if you want to build mingw applications, I suggest that you check out the mingw project. It is at http://www.mingw.org/ . cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple