D.gnu - version Windows on cygwin?
- "Carlos Santander B." <csantander619 gmail.com> Feb 14 2005
- "Nick Sabalausky" <z a.a> Feb 14 2005
- "Nick Sabalausky" <z a.a> Feb 14 2005
- Georg Wrede <georg.wrede nospam.org> Mar 25 2005
- Eric Hanchrow <offby1 blarg.net> Feb 14 2005
- Andy Friesen <andy ikagames.com> Feb 14 2005
- Manfred Nowak <svv1999 hotmail.com> Feb 14 2005
- "Carlos Santander B." <csantander619 gmail.com> Feb 15 2005
- David Friedman <d3rdclsmail_a_ _t_earthlink_d_._t_net> Feb 15 2005
Ok, so building gdc on cygwin isn't really difficult: it's just a matter of having the paths right. But now that it's ready, I tried compiling a simple program and it caused an static assert(0) on std.c.windows.windows. Now, cygwin runs on top of Windows, so shouldn't version Windows be enabled? _______________________ Carlos Santander Bernal
Feb 14 2005
"Carlos Santander B." <csantander619 gmail.com> wrote in message news:curuej$2jnn$1 digitaldaemon.com...Ok, so building gdc on cygwin isn't really difficult: it's just a matter of having the paths right. But now that it's ready, I tried compiling a simple program and it caused an static assert(0) on std.c.windows.windows. Now, cygwin runs on top of Windows, so shouldn't version Windows be enabled? _______________________ Carlos Santander Bernal
I'm not sure. Cygwin is supposed to emulate Unix, and so a true emulation of Unix wouldn't have Windows, since a real Unix doesn't. But since it is in reality running under Windows, I guess that make it somewhat ambiguous.
Feb 14 2005
"Nick Sabalausky" <z a.a> wrote in message news:cus11m$2mpk$1 digitaldaemon.com..."Carlos Santander B." <csantander619 gmail.com> wrote in message news:curuej$2jnn$1 digitaldaemon.com...Ok, so building gdc on cygwin isn't really difficult: it's just a matter of having the paths right. But now that it's ready, I tried compiling a simple program and it caused an static assert(0) on std.c.windows.windows. Now, cygwin runs on top of Windows, so shouldn't version Windows be enabled? _______________________ Carlos Santander Bernal
I'm not sure. Cygwin is supposed to emulate Unix, and so a true emulation of Unix wouldn't have Windows, since a real Unix doesn't. But since it is in reality running under Windows, I guess that make it somewhat ambiguous.
I guess it depends on whether C/C++ programs under Cygwin can access the Windows API. And I don't know enough about Cygwin to know if that can be done or not.
Feb 14 2005
Georg Wrede <georg.wrede nospam.org> Nick Sabalausky wrote:"Nick Sabalausky" <z a.a> wrote in message news:cus11m$2mpk$1 digitaldaemon.com..."Carlos Santander B." <csantander619 gmail.com> wrote in message news:curuej$2jnn$1 digitaldaemon.com...Ok, so building gdc on cygwin isn't really difficult: it's just a matter of having the paths right. But now that it's ready, I tried compiling a simple program and it caused an static assert(0) on std.c.windows.windows. Now, cygwin runs on top of Windows, so shouldn't version Windows be enabled? _______________________ Carlos Santander Bernal
I'm not sure. Cygwin is supposed to emulate Unix, and so a true emulation of Unix wouldn't have Windows, since a real Unix doesn't. But since it is in reality running under Windows, I guess that make it somewhat ambiguous.
I guess it depends on whether C/C++ programs under Cygwin can access the Windows API. And I don't know enough about Cygwin to know if that can be done or not.
This should actually be asked on some Cygwin forum! There probably is an established way of doing this -- and we wouldn't want to break it.
Mar 25 2005
"Nick" == Nick Sabalausky <z a.a> writes:
Nick> I guess it depends on whether C/C++ programs under Cygwin Nick> can access the Windows API. And I don't know enough about Nick> Cygwin to know if that can be done or not. They can, but typically don't. -- But users will not now with glad cries glom on to a language that gives them no more than what Scheme or Pascal gave them. -- Guy Steele, http://www.sun.com/research/jtech/pubs/98-oopsla-growing.ps
Feb 14 2005
Carlos Santander B. wrote:Ok, so building gdc on cygwin isn't really difficult: it's just a matter of having the paths right. But now that it's ready, I tried compiling a simple program and it caused an static assert(0) on std.c.windows.windows. Now, cygwin runs on top of Windows, so shouldn't version Windows be enabled?
Cygwin g++ does not define WIN32. MinGW g++ does. gdc should probably mirror this behaviour. -- andy
Feb 14 2005
Andy Friesen wrote: [...]Cygwin g++ does not define WIN32.
Isn't GNU defined? -manfred
Feb 14 2005
Andy Friesen wrote:Carlos Santander B. wrote:Ok, so building gdc on cygwin isn't really difficult: it's just a matter of having the paths right. But now that it's ready, I tried compiling a simple program and it caused an static assert(0) on std.c.windows.windows. Now, cygwin runs on top of Windows, so shouldn't version Windows be enabled?
Cygwin g++ does not define WIN32. MinGW g++ does. gdc should probably mirror this behaviour. -- andy
That sounds reasonable (even if I still think std.c.windows.windows should be available). _______________________ Carlos Santander Bernal
Feb 15 2005
Andy Friesen wrote:Carlos Santander B. wrote:Ok, so building gdc on cygwin isn't really difficult: it's just a matter of having the paths right. But now that it's ready, I tried compiling a simple program and it caused an static assert(0) on std.c.windows.windows. Now, cygwin runs on top of Windows, so shouldn't version Windows be enabled?
Cygwin g++ does not define WIN32. MinGW g++ does. gdc should probably mirror this behaviour. -- andy
Does it make sense to set Windows/Win32 if the -mno-cygwin option is given? David
Feb 15 2005