Re: [Rlib-devel] Windows Compile

[Zoltan B. <zb...@du...>]

Bob Doan =EDrta:
> Hym...
>=20
> I tried this and I got a little further, but libtool was not happy
> making its exe wrappers.. I'll have to investigate.
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>=20
>=20
>>But CygWin has all anything a normal POSIX environment has, doesn't it?
>>Including langinfo.h and monetary.h...
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>=20
> Yes, but when you use the "-mno-cygwin" is uses a built in mingw
> environment to compile things.  Instead of gcc looking in the
> normal /usr path it looks in /usr/i686-pc-mingw/ and therefor it doesn'=
t
> have langinfo, monetary, ect
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> I use the environment to develop a windows GTK app successfully. (Nativ=
e
> win32, no cygwin dll is needed)
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> Do you have a plain mingw environment?  I might need a little further
> instruction on how to set it up correctly.  I had assumed up until this
> point you were going down the -mno-cygwin route

I installed MingW (3.1 and 3.2-rc3) and MSYS-1.0.10 and the packages I
wrote earlier.

> =3D=3D=3D On another note =3D=3D
>=20
> I think the easiest thing to do w/ the nl_langinfo stuff is to make a
> win32 compat library for rlib.  We could ask the guy if he would mind
> releasing his work under the LGPL.  I think this solutions would make
> all parties happy.  We could also put glibc strfmon in here also.

Yes, it seems feasible.

Best regards,
Zolt=E1n B=F6sz=F6rm=E9nyi