[libdbi-devel] Patch(over 0.8.0pre3) for compiling libdbi core on mingw+msys

[Ashish R. <ash...@ya...>]

Dear markus,

I hope that i can submit the patches to libdbi core
too.

Mingw (www.mingw.org) is port of gnu compiler which
output native executable on windows platform, unlike
cygwin. And msys (see, www.mingw.org) is a minimal
posix environment for windows, it gives us autoconf
etc tools on windows platform. Biggest advantage over
cygwin is that there is no runtime emulation done at
any layer, all the native. You can even cross compile
using mingw tools, ie sitting on a linux box, you can
output the native executables for window machines.
There are other IDE environments also (apart from
msys), which use mingw in the backend to generate the
output .exe , like Dev-C++ etc.

I had released one addon patch to compile libdbi
(core) 0.7.x on mingw+msys .Today, i ported that for
0.8.0 pre3 code base, and here i submit my changes. If
it is incorporated, then on windows , we can compile
libdbi on mingw+msys (apart from the cygwin) out of
the box.

The zip file contains CHANGES_DETAIL_0.8.0pre3.txt, in
which there is all detail as to what changes have been
made in the original file.

Please note that Change 1.1 and 1.2 involve only
renaming two variables
And Change 1.3 and 2.1 only are significant change,
but these are put inside 
    #ifdef .. 
	  ...
	#elif __MINGW32__  
	 .. 
	#else
	 ..
	#endif. 
Hence there will be no re-testing needed for the
modified code on other platforms, like Linux/BSD,AIX
etc due to these changes/additions only.
  The newly added functions have been named like
win_... , because this implementation is not mingw
specific. all those functions will help in compiling
it on VC++ also, if someone tried to port it.
bye :-)
Ashish Ranjan
ash...@ya...
PS: i am mailing the actual patch file separately to you.


	
		
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