From: pgarceau AT submergedsoftware DOT com (Paul Garceau)
Subject: Re: cygwin32 (mingw32) news update
3 Dec 1997 22:24:24 -0800
Message-ID: <199712040152.UAA15026.cygnus.gnu-win32@bw.webex.net>
References: <199712010401 DOT EAA43478 AT out1 DOT ibm DOT net>
Reply-To: pgarceau AT submergedsoftware DOT com
To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

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.


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