From: Andrew P. <and...@gm...> - 2013-01-20 16:21:49
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What's the state of Windows RT support in MinGW? Any demo apps that run on Microsoft Surface? -- Cheers, Andrew Pennebaker www.yellosoft.us |
From: Earnie B. <ea...@us...> - 2013-01-20 16:32:37
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On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Andrew Pennebaker wrote: > What's the state of Windows RT support in MinGW? Any demo apps that run on > Microsoft Surface? We have a lot of catching up to do which will take time. -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd |
From: Xiaofan C. <xia...@gm...> - 2013-01-22 05:07:36
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On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:21 AM, Andrew Pennebaker <and...@gm...> wrote: > What's the state of Windows RT support in MinGW? Any demo apps that run on > Microsoft Surface? Take note you can only run Windows Store Apps (Metro type apps) under Windows RT. No 3rd-party desktop application can run under Windows RT unless you jailbreak the device. Ref: http://libusbx.1081486.n5.nabble.com/Libusbx-devel-libusbx-and-Windows-8-and-Windows-8-RT-tp410p418.html Quote Tim Roberts. "You cannot run standard Win32 applications or DLLs in Windows RT at all. The APIs are blocked. Unless you get special blessing from Microsoft (and so far only the browser makers have that blessing), RT will only run "Windows Store" applications that run under the control of the WinRT runtime, and the runtime is the only component that can do I/O." -- Xiaofan |
From: Nathan L. <net...@gm...> - 2013-01-22 22:10:03
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Xiaofan Chen <xiaofanc@...> writes: > Take note you can only run Windows Store Apps (Metro type apps) > under Windows RT. No 3rd-party desktop application can run under > Windows RT unless you jailbreak the device. It'd be nice to have it for the jailbroken Windows RT devices, though. There's a lot of valuable FOSS out there that requires gcc to build. |
From: Xiaofan C. <xia...@gm...> - 2013-01-23 02:23:13
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On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 6:06 AM, Nathan Ladwig <net...@gm...> wrote: > Xiaofan Chen <xiaofanc@...> writes: > >> Take note you can only run Windows Store Apps (Metro type apps) >> under Windows RT. No 3rd-party desktop application can run under >> Windows RT unless you jailbreak the device. > > It'd be nice to have it for the jailbroken Windows RT devices, though. There's a > lot of valuable FOSS out there that requires gcc to build. > I can understand that. But on the other hand, I am not so sure Windows RT will be really popular because of the limitations. Personally I think it needs another two iterations for Microsoft to get it right. :-) -- Xiaofan |
From: C. T. S. <ct...@th...> - 2013-01-23 16:11:06
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On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:23:06 +0800 Xiaofan Chen <xia...@gm...> wrote: > I can understand that. But on the other hand, I am not so sure Windows > RT will be really popular because of the limitations. Personally I > think it needs another two iterations for Microsoft to get it > right. :-) > > <ot rant> Let's see - windows CE, windows nt/xp/x embedded, windows mobile, windows tablet edition, Pocket PC, SmartPhone, windows phone 8, windows RT, windows metro, windows 8 for arm*, windows train wreck, and windows rat sandwich. hmmm. I love obscure and cursed forms of computing, and even I can't see why anyone would care to watch this abomination bleed to death. How can anyone even keep track of what all this waste is suppose to be? Somehow the most sanguinary part of the saga is that if they just opened up the platform for real user native development, it would still actually be better than the locked down pits of despair that are iOS and that imposter parading around to the uninformed as some sort of linux platform. *which apparently is still not the same thing as windows rt and has another set of "rules" about what you can install starting with various licensing schemes stipulating uefi secure boot, etc. </ot rant> -- C. Thomas Stover www.thomasstover.com |