Mail Archives: cygwin/1997/12/03/22:24:24
On 1 Dec 97 at 4:01, the Illustrious vischne AT ibm DOT net wrote:
> >
> > cygwin32 (mingw32) + egcs -- news update
> >
> > Mumit Khan (khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu)
> >
> >Just a heads up for the egcs users -- I just ran the testsuite on the
> >latest snapshot (+ extra fixes for template handling + use sjlj for
> >exception handling), and the results for i386-cygwin32 are almost as
> >good as on i386-linux-gnulibc1!
> >
>
> Only one or two problems:
>
> mingw32 make emphatically does not work. It needs sh.exe, and, when it
> gets cygwin sh.exe, it has directory addressing conflicts. It definitely
> does not understand GNU makefiles, even when individual command-line
> compiles work.
> For some odd reason, compiling a program or library that references
> sleep, _sleep, __sleep, or Sleep fails during link, no matter what
> `extra' libraries are referenced.
Largely correct...from a minimalist standpoint, however, it was noted
that such things wouldn't work in the documentation that comes with
mingw32 as far as I recall.
Peace,
Paul G.
Chronicles of Aurum: Book I
A Journey Into the Fantastic
http://www.submergedsoftware.com/
ICQ#977283
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