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 sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <017501c0c288$1faebce0$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> From: "Robert Collins" To: , References: <85256A2B DOT 00471AEF DOT 00 AT s65a0384 DOT prci DOT com> Subject: Re: glib for cygwin Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 23:05:45 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Apr 2001 12:59:08.0119 (UTC) FILETIME=[31F99E70:01C0C287] ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 10:56 PM Subject: glib for cygwin > Hi, all, > I have tried to compile glib and so far have not been successful. Jong B. Lee > claimed he was be able to compile glib-1.2.8 with modification g_strsignal() to > const gchar* g_strsignal(), and const char* strsignal(). But I still got error, > especially in gthread_posix.c, even with the newest beta version. Charles > Wilson pointed me to mailing list http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gimpwin-dev/, I > searched there (I was unable to post question over there since my membership has > yet to be approved) and did not find satisfactory answer. > > My question is: Does Cygwin support glib/gtk yet. Anyone has glib tar ball > which can be compiled? I believe Jong does. > If cygwin is a truly unix like api, other gnu code should be compiled under > cygwin without (major?) modification, right? Yes. Note that Unix is a very large platform. Not all unixes support all features - thats why glib has 3 or 4 different module sub-libraries. and multiple different threads libraries. So being able to compile gnu code with little modification does not mean you can compile all code at all. > I am pretty new to cygwin. I only used cygnus (unix like shell ) couple years > ago (1997?). So my question may seems like stupid. > > Thanks > > CS > I've been able to compile glib 1.2.8 for over 8 months. I had serious problems with module support, which IIRC Jong claimed to have solved. Jong gave out this link http://my.dreamwiz.com/jbdoll/ for a download of his patched glib. - with working modules. Thread support was broken (compile with --enable-threads=none) but I have it working here. I'm currently tidying up some code with pthread_key's before I submit a new patch to cygwin. I have glib here with working threads (but no modules as I haven't looked into Jong's patch :]). It's very important to use the cygwin pthreads, not win32 threads, if your application uses fork(). _DO NOT_ try glib compiled with cygwin with threads=win32. Rob -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple