Re: [Mingw-users] not obvious how to compile programs for large files

[Shaya P. <sp...@gm...>]

On 11/03/2010 12:45 PM, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
>> I'll try again and if that fails, reinstall msys again.
>
> Hmm, could it be that you are actually using a MSYS toolchain and
> producing MSYS executables? It might well be that MSYS doesn't handle
> large files. It indeed does seem so, as the /bin/ls in MSYS doesn't
> show the size of large files correctly, for instance.
>
> (MSYS is a fork of Cygwin from quite some time ago. Current Cygwin
> (1.7) *does* handle large files just fine.)

ok, wanted an environment where I wasn't cross compiling (i.e. cygwin 
build to mingw host).

Though from my experience it does seem like its possible to get 
msys/mingw to handle large file just fine (a bunch of libraries do it, 
and when I put my open() wrapper in them, it works fine as described 
earlier).  I just can't figure out the setup to get it to work.

I should note that msys seems to be the way to install it via 
http://www.mingw.org/