Re: [Aegisvm-devel] Win32 port of JPR

[Gildas B. <gb...@al...>]

On Thursday 17 October 2002 02:39, Philip Fong wrote:
> Hi Gildas,
> 
> I am trying to process your win32 port.  Need to ask you for help with
> some configuration stuff.
> 
> 1. I set up the mingw environment on my winME box.  Somehow the cvs
>    from msysDTK hangs whenever I perform cvs operations.  It kind of
>    performs the operation, but then does not known how to shut down.
>    Have you experienced this anomaly before?  I could have lived
>    with WinCVS, but it is also buggy (it does not do cvs release),
>    and I would hope to get my familiar command line cvs working. :-)

To be honest, I never tried the cvs included with msysDTK so I don't know, 
it might have a problem.

Lately, I have been expermimenting with cygwin (www.cygwin.com).  Cygwin is 
a quite stable environment and I know for sure its cvs command is working 
fine.
Theoretically, you should also be able to use cygwin to build JPR and 
AegisVM, although I'm pretty sure you'll have to make a few changes to the 
build system (and I haven't tried myself). One of this changes would be to 
use CC="gcc -mno-cygwin" in order to build to build an exectuable which 
isn't dependant on the cygwin portability layer.

> 2. If I understand correctly, the patch to libffi is only for building
>    libffi with MSVC and for cross-compiling from linux.  So, I tried
>    building a cvs version of libffi without your patch on mingw, but
>    the configure script does not seem to be working on the mingw
>    environment.  What I am asking is, which snapshot of libffi are
>    you using (e.g. date tag)?  Would it be because I am using the
>    wrong snapshot?
> 

Ah sorry, I forgot to tell you that you need to use the current cvs version 
of libffi (from http://sources.redhat.com/libffi/). This version already 
had some work done to support mingw32.

> Thanks for your help.  I am really eager to merge your work into
> the cvs tree. :-)
> 

Thanks for you time.

--
Gildas