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Re: [WIP] mingw64 related changes to Cygwin configure and other assorted files with departed w32api/mingw
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:50:23PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Nov 12 15:02, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> I decided over the weekend to port over configury changes that I made to
>> Cygwin's now-out-of-date GIT repository.
>>
>> These changes basically just cleaned up some of the configure scripts
>> and made it easier to pinpoint where windows headers and libraries come
>> from by adding a --with-windows-headers and --with-windows-libs options.
>> However, some of the assumptions made for the git repository weren't
>> really valid for the CVS repository so there was a fair amount of work
>> involved.
>>
>> I thought that I'd do this so I could easily get up-and-running with the
>> MinGW64 stuff but I ran into some problems building things with gentoo's
>> MinGW64 implementation. So, I switched to using the files from the
>> Cygwin release.
>>
>> As I mentioned in cygwin-developers, getting the most recent version of
>> mingw64 stuff working required making some changes to some Cygwin source
>> files. Most of the changes just involved #undef'ing constants defined
>> in Windows headers. Still, I was surprised that these hadn't already
>> been handled since I thought I was behind the times by still using the
>> Mingw32 stuff.
>>
>> Anyway, is a summary of the changes I've made to files is below. I'll
>> be doing appropriate ChangeLogs too, of course. I've also attached the
>> patch.
>>
>> This is a heads up in case this conflicted materially with any of the
>> w64 development.
>
>Looks good at first sight. I see only one place which won't work for 64
>bit, the ccwrap script. It uses i686-pc-cygwin-gcc/g++ hardcoded, but
>it should use something like ${target_cpu}-pc-cygwin-gcc/g++ to make it
>platform independent. With a matching change, I can give it a try on
>64 bit tomorrow.
That was really only for my own personal use. It isn't meant to be used
with CC not in the environment. That's only for when I was experimenting
with running the script outside of the build.
>I'm a bit puzzled about the necessity of some of the changes to source
>files. Yaakov's Fedora 17 version of the headers is supposedly cut from
>the mingw64 trunk on 2012-10-16, while JonY's official headers have an
>upload date of 2012-10-18. They should be practically identical. Why
>do I not see any problems to build CVS HEAD?!?
You can keep asking me this question but I don't really have an answer.
Since I don't run Fedora, I'm not going to install it to figure it out.
cgf