Hi Wez,
now that the dependency on VC has been dropped, what would it
take to get mingw32 build support?
- Sascha
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 17:01:23 +0100 (CET)
Sascha Schumann sascha@schumann.cx wrote:
Hi Wez, now that the dependency on VC has been dropped, what would it take to get mingw32 build support?
Should be really great :).
By the way (or a bit OT), I got little little success by running console
VC tools using wine on linux, anyone experencied with these tools?
pierre
When I tried to enable win32 specific extensions (such as COM)
under cygwin, I found that a lot of the win32 api headers were
missing, so the build failed.
I suspect that the same problem will manifest with mingw32.
It's nothing that downloading the platform SDK won't solve,
but if you download that, you've got the MS build tools anyway.
I don't plan to look at mingw32 myself, and I don't want to
deal with patches for it until I've completed the features
I have planned for the build system; once done, adding mingw
support should be reasonably simple (just change the object
and library suffixes and compiler flags...).
--Wez.
now that the dependency on VC has been dropped, what would it take to get mingw32 build support?
When I tried to enable win32 specific extensions (such as COM)
under cygwin, I found that a lot of the win32 api headers were
missing, so the build failed.
Cygwin is a Unix portability layer, not a win32. :)
mingw's header set should be fairly complete.
http://www.mingw.org/mingwfaq.shtml#faq-w32api
I don't plan to look at mingw32 myself, and I don't want to
deal with patches for it until I've completed the features
I have planned for the build system; once done, adding mingw
support should be reasonably simple (just change the object
and library suffixes and compiler flags...).
Will there be an abstraction similar to our current m4
infrastructure? (I have not looked at the .js yet)
- Sascha
When I tried to enable win32 specific extensions (such as COM)
under cygwin, I found that a lot of the win32 api headers were
missing, so the build failed.Cygwin is a Unix portability layer, not a win32. :)
Sure, but you can use the win32 api from there, and some of
the headers used by COM are not present in cygwin install.
Will there be an abstraction similar to our current m4 infrastructure? (I have not looked at the .js yet)
Although there isn't right at this moment, there will be.
--Wez.