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

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Hi Ashish,

I forgot to ask something: libdbi and libdbi-drivers both have README.w32 files
which currently explain how to compile and install things on Cygwin. These
files would be the appropriate place to explain usage for mingw as well. Why
don't you send a few lines that explain how to get libdbi and the drivers up
and running using mingw? I'd like to include this into the readmes.

regards,
Markus

Ashish Ranjan <ash...@ya...> was heard to say:

> 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.
>



-- 
Markus Hoenicka
mar...@ca...
(Spam-protected email: replace the quadrupeds with "mhoenicka")
http://www.mhoenicka.de