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

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

Malinka -

Thank you for the insight.

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Malinka Rellikwodahs
<ael...@gm...> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 17:20, K. Frank <kfr...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> Hello List -
>>
>> Is it possible to build (and run) quickfix on cygwin?
>
> probably easiest is to try it.  as likely it depends heavily on your
> particular config of windows/cygwin/etc.  and getting an install of
> cygwin with compiler tools is pretty simple to do.  I would try it
> here and let you know however right now I don't have a system with a
> cygwin install setup for this and as i said earlier results may vary.

Yes, trying it would be the acid test.  (However, as I am trying to
ween myself off of cygwin, I also do not have cygwin installed at
the moment.)

>> 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.
>
> that's because this is a very non-standard approach as it is possible
> to run quickfix in windows.
>
>> (It is my understanding that quickfix cannot be built with mingw.
>> Is this in fact the case?)
>
> again probably easiest to simply try it yourself, as any problems with
> build in the past may have been (intentionally or otherwise) remedied
> or related to a persons particular system config and/or quickfix
> conifg.

Hmm...  I don't see how quickfix could work with mingw.  I don't see
how to get around the winsock issue -- mingw simply doesn't support
(or emulate) unix sockets.

> ...
>> 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-developers
>>
>> (But perhaps I've overlooked something.)
>
> there used to be afaik however it was a bit unwieldy the last time I
> used it which would have been about a year ago or so.

Hey, I found the search function:  At the above-mentioned url, there
is a menu:

   | Summary | Files | Support | Develop | Tracker | Mailing Lists | Code |

with "Mailing Lists" highlighted.  If I hover the mouse over "Mailing Lists,"
a drop-down menu appears, with the last (fourth) entry being "Search."

So...  I searched on "cygwin."  One post, from 2006, suggests that quickfix
can be built on cygwin:

   http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=B9E9A8F8-8876-4A5E-ADC2-5C8E681279D1%40quickfixengine.org

Another post, from 2010, is more equivocal:

   http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=26999875.post%40talk.nabble.com

Anyway, there are hints that it's possible, so I'll install cygwin, and give
the build a try.

> ...
> HTH

Yes, thank you.


K. Frank