Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: hp2.xraylith.wisc.edu: khan owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 00:00:09 -0600 (CST) From: Mumit Khan To: N8TM AT aol DOT com cc: JKraaijeveld AT askesis DOT nl, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: Norland Win32 API In-Reply-To: <0.6703d2e3.258c43f7@aol.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 17 Dec 1999 N8TM AT aol DOT com wrote: > Aren't those the headers which have been in the snapshots since late January? > So another possibility would be to install the snapshots, and possibly the > corresponding compiler versions? > Here's a quick timeline of w32api as it relates to Cygwin: - Anders releases 0.1.5 - Cygwin snapshots start using this + few changes - Cygwin starts adding changes and sends the changes back to Anders - Anders releases 0.2 which have the Cygwin changes + lots more. - I take 0.2, add lots of stuff, merge Cygwin changes and put that up for ftp along with gcc-2.95.2 ftp://ftp.xraylith.wisc.edu/pub/khan/gnu-win32/cygwin/gcc-2.95.2/ Cygwin's dev snapshots now have something that needs updating, but there're some gotchas. The version of gcc that Cygwin team uses has some known bugs in pragma pack handling (those bugs are not in any of my egcs/gcc releases), and that has forced them to add buggy declarations to get around the bugs, either knowingly or unknowingly. Anders sent me his latest snapshot. I've taken that, fixed some problems, added some local stuff, merged in Cygwin dev changes. I'll put that up for ftp sometime soon. I don't expect the Cygwin team to adopt this right away as this will certainly create some transient, but hopefully short-lived, problems. Complicated? Oh yeah. I need to get this out next week before I take off to spend the new year in a technologically backwards place where nothing can go wrong just because it's y2k ;-) Of course, there's also the sun and 75 degrees in the shade by the beach. Regards, Mumit -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com