From: ian AT cygnus DOT com (Ian Lance Taylor)
Subject: popen and mingw32
9 Jul 1998 10:06:39 -0700
Message-ID: <199807091702.NAA14900.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@subrogation.cygnus.com>
To: khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu
Cc: cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

I've had a bug report about windres, running on Windows 95, using
Mumit's gcc binaries which I believe are mingw32 based.

windres works by using popen to run `gcc -E'.  Based on the bug
report, the bug appears to be that the gcc -E output is sent directly
to the console, rather than being read by windres via popen.  windres
then fails because it doesn't see any input.

I just tested windres running on Windows 95 using cygwin32 gcc
binaries, and it worked correctly.  I don't have any mingw32 binaries,
so I don't have a way to test that.

The original bug report was from Douglas Steele
<Douglas AT dsteele DOT demon DOT co DOT uk> on June 13.

I don't know if there is a real bug here, although I see that it is at
least possible.  I don't have a way to test it.  I'm just passing this
bug report along.  I plan to remove it from my mail file and not worry
about it.

Ian