[MinGW-dvlpr] mingw-utils commited to CVS

[José F. <j_r...@ya...>]

I've just commited mingw-utils to CVS.

Things already done:

  - basic use of the autotools
  - successfull build of pexports, redir, reimp, dos2unix, and unix2dos 
(didn't test them
  - scripts are done from .in files though nothing is really changed.

Things to do:

  - add better support to cross-compiling:
     * add prefix to binaries (e.g., i386-mingw32msvc-reimp, ...) and 
change the scripts accordingly
     * do not build drmingw, dos2unix and unix2dos when cross-compiling
  - build the sample cases to drmingw
  - figure out what to do with exchnld.c (kind of an embedded/cut-down 
version of drmingw functionality to be used in programs) which was even 
used by drmingw for its/my own debugging purposes:
     * make a DLL out of it using libtool...
     * ... or leave it alone as an example
  - standardize the documentation
     * probably by making manpages for the remaining utilities (e.g. using 
help2man) and than distribute the html pages (with man2html)

This will take some time because I'm short on free time and I want to 
focus on the documentation since the framework to build all CHMs from the 
gnu/unix utilities will be general enough to suite other personal purposes 
- generate the same documentation for a Linux online help system similar 
to Windows HTMLHelp.

Regardless of the above problems I manages to compile build everything 
with minor tweaks on my linux-box so a SourceForge release is possible as 
is.


José Fonseca


PS: Earnie, I've installed MSYS on an old Windows machine (for my brother 
who is learning C programming) - replacing my old gnu/unix utilities ports 
- and I was pretty amazed by its slick look and easy installation. It's 
indeed an huge improvement over any other way to build unix-originated but 
win32-native apps on a Windows machine using Mingw. ;-)