From: flowerp AT eikon DOT tum DOT de (Christian Buchner) Subject: B20: severe trouble after updating to B20 5 Nov 1998 11:09:06 -0800 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Greetings, I've been using the B19 release of CygWin for three days now (and I loved it!). I was able to compile the sources from the ecgs-1.1b.tar.gz archive with this CygWin version. Yesterday I updated to B20. I deleted the whole B19 tree and replaced the SH.EXE program in /bin with the recent one. I am using Windows 98 (this might be important). Problem #1: chmod +x will not set the +x flag (ls -l doesn't show any x flag). So I can no longer start the scripts my home directory /home/flowerp by just typing their names. In the .BAT file that starts CygWin, I added the following lines: SET HOME=/home/flowerp SET USER=flowerp Could this be the cause for the misbehaviour I just described? Problem #2: I was trying to re-compile EGCS 1.1b using CygWin B20. I untarred the egcs-1.1b.tar.gz archive to the root directory. To compile, I typed the following lines: mkdir /objdir cd /objdir /ecgs-1.1b/configure SH.EXE suddenly crashes after a few seconds, dumping core. Quite annoying. Problem #3: The main reason why I am using CygWin and ECGS is: I want to contribute to the Windows port of a a project called "UAE" (Unix Amiga Emulator). Starting from B20, the ECGS 1.1 compiler that is provided in the B20 "full.exe" distribution, will no longer compile the sources. When compiling a part of the UAE sources (to be exact: newcpu.c), the assembler(!) of GCC reports a strange error when compiling an assembly source file in my TEMP directory (F:\TEMP). I cannot remember the exact error log, but on request I can send it to you. All I can say now that I was able to compile the program using the B19 release. I am going to reinstall B19, because this one worked. Some additional questions: - Where can I obtain the patches that you applied to the original EGCS 1.1b distribution for compiling the EGCS runtime files you supply in "full.exe"? - Can anyone tell me where to find examples (source code and API description) of how to communicate directly with SCSI devices using Windows 98 and/or NT? Does mingw32 support this API or will I have to create my own header files and/or linker libraries for this purpose? Greetings, Christian Buchner - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".