Re: [Libusb-devel] CRLF in files checked out on Windows

[Peter S. <pe...@st...>]

Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> I think you guys have some mis-understandings about MSys
> and autotools.

I'll try to clarify what I meant.


> MSys autoconf is to created MSys dependent applications and this
> is not what we want, we want to create Windows native binary.

I think MinGW is only GCC and toolchain.

And MSYS is the environment that allows to run pre-generated
configure scripts, to generate Makefiles that will then use MinGW to
build native Windows binaries.

autoconf would be compiled by MinGW (probably) and run in MSYS.
That's why I called it MSYS autoconf.


> Secondly MSys still use shell scripts similar to Unix and
> Cygwin, you can call it a mini shell environment but nevertheless,
> it is similar to Unix and Cygwin when it comes to shell scripts.

Yes! This is the primary task of MSYS as I understand it. And it is
even the exact same bash as many Unix systems and Cygwin. But not
every command line tool is available, so I agree that it can be
called minimal. It's also what the M stands for. :) (But I actually
think that the default MSYS installation is very competent!)


> If you ever use MinGW/MSys, and open the include
> files or the shell scripts (many under the bin dir
> are shell scripts), you will notice they are not
> CRLF.

Ok! The include files in my MinGW cross-compiler toolchain are also
LF only, but exactly because it is a cross-toolchain I didn't bring
it up, since it may have been adjusted to my platform.


> If you think CRLF is native and MinGW/MSys
> is Windows native and thus should use CRLF
> for everything, then you are totally wrong.

Thanks for adding this piece of the puzzle!


//Peter