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

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

Jekke -

Thanks for the feedback.

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Bladt, Jekke
<jek...@cr...> wrote:
> QuickFIX Documentation: http://www.quickfixengine.org/quickfix/doc/html/index.html
> QuickFIX Support: http://www.quickfixengine.org/services.html
>
>  That provides another possibility. If you can't build in VC++ and don't
> have a Linux box, you could try building in g++ on Windows. I've never
> tried that particular build, but g++ is rock-solid.

As far as I know there are two ways to run g++ on windows:  There
is the mingw port of g++ that builds native windows applications, and
the cygwin version of g++ that builds applications that rely on the
cygwin platform (cygwin.dll).

I did see some old postings that suggest that you can't build quickfix
with mingw.  Reading between the lines, it seems that you need the
unix version of quickfix if you want to try to build it with g++, but this
uses unix-style sockets (rather than winsock sockets), which are not
supported by mingw.  (I would be happy to find out that this is incorrect.)

That's what led me to ask whether quickfix builds / runs under cygwin.
I did find one or two equivocal postings about this issue, but I certainly
didn't come across anyone who stated affirmatively that he had built
quickfix under cygwin.

Thanks for any pointers or information.


K. Frank


> --Jekke
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Tsafas [mailto:GT...@rb...]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 5:59 PM
> To: K. Frank; Quickfix Developers List
> Subject: Re: [Quickfix-developers] Does quickfix build / run on cygwi
> ...
> Sorry I cannot be more help as I compile my quickfix application on
> linux using g++ . I am not familiar with the mingw.
>
> "K. Frank" <kfr...@gm...> wrote:
> ...
> 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?
>> ...