Re: [Mingw-users] Help required urgently regarding some porting issues

[Earnie B. <ear...@ya...>]

Bhaskar Maddala wrote:
> Hi Earnie,
>     Thanks a lot for clarifying my doubts. So I take it that it would be
> better if I port it using MSYS instead of using both cygwin and MinGW. 
> I have few Q, regding its usage.
> - In FAQs while surfing, it was mentioned that MSYS has a different
> makefile syntax (might have understood it wrong). So what should be the
> makefile? Is it makefile or MinGW.Makefile*** ??
> -  Does compilation using MSYS require different flags or any additional
> flags than that in cygwin? 
> 
> Regding the libraries,
>   I checked up http://sources.redhat.com for pthread ports. It had a
> list of ports.
> "  	pthreadGCE.dll	(GNUC/C++ EH)
> 	pthreadGC.dll	(GNUC/not dependent on exceptions) "
> I think we need to select pthreadGC.dll for our product since it is a C
> code. Can you confirm this.
> 

I can't confirm, no.

> Also I checked up the site http://tcl.sf.net for tcl/tk ports. I could
> not connect to the ports url but got the source of 8.3.4 version. Is
> this a stable version?
> 

Yes, and builds with MSYS+MinGW.  You could also try 
http://sf.net/projects/tcl choose Files in the top menu for a list of 
distributed files.

> Abt the X11 libs, I got Win32-X11 lib from sources.redhat.com . But u
> mentioned that they are old versions. So do u have any idea if they
> create any problems at compilation or at runtime??
> 

No, I don't.  You may also want to have a look at 
http://sf.net/projects/libw11 for a X server replacement library that 
allows the native Win32 by the GUI server.

> In the lib directory of MinGW, there is a lib called libcap.a  . Is it
> same as the wpcap library of cygin??
> 

I doubt it.  The libcap.a are import definitions for some CAP.DLL that 
exports DumpCAP(), StartCAP(), StopCAP() and _penter.

> And lastly, there is also a library in cygwin : libdl.a 
> Is there anything like that for MinGW?? can u tell me where I can find
> the ports for this lib.

No, it's not in MinGW.  It's not even in my /c/cygwin/lib directory so 
some add on package has given it to you.  What is it?  What does it do?

Earnie.