Re: [Quickfix-developers] Does quickfix build / run on cygwin?

[K. F. <kfr...@gm...>]

George -

Thanks for the reply.

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 5:24 PM, George Tsafas <GT...@rb...> wrote:
> Why build on a linux emulator on windows and not just on windows?

Some code I have doesn't work with Visual Studio.  (Presumably
that could be fixed, but I haven't looked into it yet.)  So I'm exploring
my options.

In rough order of preference:

1)  Build with mingw on windows.
     -- Issue:  My understanding is that quickfix doesn't work with mingw.
     (But please correct me if I'm wrong.)

2)  Build with cygwin.
     -- Issue:  Can this be made to work?  Hence my posting.

3)  Build on linux.  (I assume that this works out of the box.)
     -- Issue:  I don't have a linux box set up right now.

4)  Build with Visual Studio on windows.
     -- Issue:  Would need to get some existing code working on VS.

So any information on the status of quickfix with mingw and/or
cygwin (options 1 and 2) would be appreciated.

(Linux -- option 3 -- I assume is a no-brainer.  VS -- option 4 -- is
not really something this list can help me with.  Porting the other
code to VS is my problem.)

Out of historical curiosity, on what platform / compiler was the bulk
of quickfix development done?

Thanks.


K. Frank


> ...
> "K. Frank" <kfr...@gm...> wrote:
> ...
>
> Hello List -
>
> Is it possible to build (and run) quickfix on cygwin?
>
> Searching around, I found very little on this issue, and what I
> did find was equivocal.  Also, I see no reference to cygwin in
> the documentation.
>
> (It is my understanding that quickfix cannot be built with mingw.
> Is this in fact the case?)
>
> Any feedback appreciated.
>
> Some subsidiary questions:
>
> Is it possible to search the list archives directly from the sourceforge
> site?  I don't see any search functionality on:
>
>   http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=quickfix-develo
> pers
>
> (But perhaps I've overlooked something.)
>
> Also, would this kind of question be better addressed to the
> Quickfix-users list?
>
> Thanks.
>
> K. Frank