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From: "purpledinosaur" <purpledinosaur AT barrysworld DOT com>
To: "'Charles Wilson'" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Building a MinGW build of aspell without much luck :(
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 14:00:40 +0800
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Thanks Charles, that does clear things up a lot. I just wished that I
came across the announcement earlier so I didn't have to do so much
grep-ing!


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From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf
Of Charles Wilson
Sent: Friday, 21 June, 2002 1:44 PM
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Building a MinGW build of aspell without much luck :(




Christopher Faylor wrote:


>>BTW, I tot I might share how I got pass my problem. I've checked and 
>>found the definition of opendir, readdir and closedir to exist in the 
>>lib libmingwex.a which was never included by the configure process. 
>>Hence the fix is to edit the gcc's specs file to include this lib 
>>whenever the -mno-cygwin switch is given. Is this considered a bug?
>>
> 
> That would be a question for the mingw mailing list, I think.  I don't

> know if they intended for libmingwex to be included by default or not.

> Since it is new and gcc is old, it obviously isn't going to be 
> included.


As Earnie mentioned in the announcement for the most recent update of 
the mingw-runtime and w32api packages for cygwin, libmingwex is a new 
addition.

> To use these functions, you will need to explicitly add -lmingwex to
> your command line. In future releases of GCC, libmingwex.a will 
> become a system lib added automatically by specs. 


So, it's not a bug that current gcc's spec file doesn't have it; it's a 
new feature of mingw-runtime that is not yet supported by our gcc.

--Chuck





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