From: michael AT weiser DOT saale-net DOT de (Michael Weiser) Subject: [FAQ] gnuwin32 mini FAQ second draft 24 Sep 1998 11:55:39 -0700 Message-ID: <360b7cde.5023873.cygnus.gnu-win32@mail.weiser.saale-net.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Hello folks, it took a bit long, but here it is: the second draft of the gnuwin32 mini FAQ and resource pointer. I mainly cleaned up and devided it into seperate parts for mingw32 and cygwin32 to avoid confusion. There are also some new URLs and some old ones got updated. I would greatly appreciate any feedback, escpecially of course from volunteers who want to write some section ( for example those marked like '[ text goes here. any volunteers? ]' ;). Also I would like to merge the '1.1.4. Options for the CYGWIN32 environment variable' article into one listing. Geoffrey, Michael and Sergey, could you please mail me if this is okay for you? (Of course you get mentioned in the acknowledgements. :) For the traffic paranoid: the file itself has 7,698 bytes. From now on I would start to post it regularly every two weeks, although it's not complete yet. If there are any protests or reasons not to do so, please mail me. But here it goes: gnuwin32 mini FAQ and resource pointer $Id: gnuwin32-mini-faq.txt,v 1.5 1998/09/23 23:02:30 michael Exp $ 0. Introduction This document tries to answer the gnuwin32 mailing list's most frequently asked questions. It is not intended to replace any other document you should have read before mailing a question to the list but tries to give a comprehensive list of such resources. Also it tries to collect all related, interesting and up-to-date download locations. 1. Cygwin32 Before doing anything else you should make sure that you have updated your cygwinb19 package, even and especially if you just downloaded and installed it. - Sergey Okhapkin's coolview package contains an updated cygwinb19.dll that reflects the latest developments and fixes a lot of known problems. It is the latest resource and even newer than the b19.1 update found on Cygnus' site. - Mumit Khan's compilation of egcs for the cygwinb19.dll fixes lots of problems with the tools that come with the environment, especially if you're using the C++ compiler. This is a drop-in replacement for the gcc toolset. URL's are listed below. 1.1. Cygwin32 most frequently asked questions If your problem doesn't go away after the above mentioned updates, perhaps the following QA's help solving it: 1.1.1. Binary mounts [ text goes here. any volunteers? ] 1.1.2. Long pauses occuring randomly in bash [ text goes here. any volunteers? ] 1.1.3. Windows 95 freezing up [ text goes here. any volunteers? ] 1.1.4. Options for the CYGWIN32 environment variable Michael Hirmke writes: It is not complete, but IMHO better than nothing: [no]strip_title - works in conjunction with 'title'. Strips the path spec from what is displayed in the console title bar when the program is run. [no]binmode - Use 'binmode' as the default open mode when the mode is not otherwise specified in the open or by mount. [no]glob - Do not perform globbing operations on the command line when a cygwin process is being invoked from a non-cygwin shell. strace - A cygwinb19.dll debugging aid. Setting mask to '1' will cause reams of information about the operation of cygwin to be written to 'file' as cygwin operates. The rest of the bits control the display various cygwin subsystems. For a complete list check out /usr/include/sys/strace.h. The cache setting controls how much strace output will be held in memory before being output to disk. Sergey Okhapkin writes: [no]tty - disable(default)/enable tty support for consoles. [no]title - disable/enable(default) displaying of a current running proces's command line on a console title. If you run my patched cygwinb19.dll, more options are available: [no]ntea - disable(default)/enable usage of extended file attributes on Windows NT. [no]mixed - disable(default)/enable case-sensitive filenames on ntfs partitions. Goeffrey Noer writes about CYGWIN32=tty: With tty mode, ttys are more Unix-like but will prevent some non-Cygwin32 console apps from working correctly. 1.2. Cygwin32 resources 1.2.1. General information If the above doesn't answer your question you should read the cygwin32 FAQ at http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/faq.html before posting any question to the list. Please also research your question via the Searchable Mail Archives at http://www.cygnus.com/ml/gnu-win32. Most problems have already been discussed and solved on the list. If you are searching for a port of a specific program or further information on a certain topic, you should check out the following cygwin32 related sites: 1.2.2. Web sites http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/ (project page) http://www.cygnus.com/pubs/gnupro/ (comercial page) http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/faq.html (cygwin32 faq) http://www.cygnus.com/ml/gnu-win32 (searchable mailing list archive) http://www.eGroups.com/list/gnu-win32/ (mailing list archive mirror) http://aquarius.franken.de/docs/develop/gnuwin32/GNUWin32.txt (Michael Hirmke - package porting notes) http://dao.gsfc.nasa.gov/software/grads/win32/X11R6.3/ (Arlindo da Silva - X11R6.3 binaries) http://gnu-win32.paranoia.ru (Chuck Bogorad - ports - sometimes down) http://www.alank.net/ (GNU-Win32 Bash Configuration) http://www.dol.ru/users/valtul (Valery Tulnikov - ports) http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32/ (Earnie Boyd - resource pointer) http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Garage/8516/gimp/gimpw32.html (Craig Setera - gimp) http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/ (more tools and man pages) http://www.kedemel.demon.co.uk/ (Darren - ports) http://www.lexa.ru/sos (Sergey Okhapkin - updates and ports) http://www.multione.capgemini.fr/tools/pack_ipc/ (Ludovic Lange - ipc package) http://www.parallax.co.uk/~andyp/index_text.html (Andy Piper - ports) http://www.tiac.net/users/cgf (Christopher Faylor - ports) http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ (Mumit Khan - updates and ports) 1.2.3. FTP archives ftp://go.cygnus.com/pub/ftp.cygnus.com/gnu-win32 (cygwin32 FTP site) ftp://dao.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/uwm_coads/X11R6.3 (Arlindo da Silva - X11R6.3 binaries) ftp://ftp.cs.nyu.edu/pub/local/fox/cygwin32 ftp://pipeline.ucsd.edu/pub/dsf/cygwin32 (David Fox - RPM port and packages) ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin32/ (Michael Hirmke - German mirror and ports collection) ftp://www.lexa.ru/pub/domestic/sos/ (Sergey Okhapkin - fixes and ports) ftp://ftp.parallax.co.uk/pub/andyp (Andy Piper - fixes and ports) ftp://ftp.xraylith.wisc.edu/pub/khan/gnu-win32/cygwin32/ (Mumit Khan - egcs binaries) 2. Mingw32 2.1. Mingw32 resources 2.1.1. Web sites http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~janjaap/mingw32/ (Jan Jaap van der Heijden - gcc binaries) http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32/ (Earnie Boyd - resource pointer) http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/gcc.html (Colin Peters - project page) http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ (Mumit Khan - updates and ports) 2.1.2. FTP archives ftp://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/home/janjaap/mingw32 (Jan Jaap van der Heijden - gcc binaries) ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/mingw32/ (Michael Hirmke - German mirror and ports collection) ftp://ftp.xraylith.wisc.edu/pub/khan/gnu-win32/mingw32/ (Mumit Khan - egcs binaries) 4. Acknowledgements Special thanks go to Earnie Boyd who wrote the first version of this document. I of course also want to thank all the developers at Cygnus and all over the net for developing such a great development environment. :) 5. 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