Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy schrieb:
> On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Rob Landley <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Surely this is a defect in your build environment?  These are standard
>>>> system headers.  Your C library is defective.
>>> Welcome to Windows.
>> How is a clearly defective build environment busybox's problem?  If mingw
>> doesn't work, either fix it or try cygwin.  Both as open source build
>> environments, and for all I know there's more.  (I don't do windows, but
>> wasn't djgpp a build environment at one point?)
> 
> Cygwin would work. But then I would need to carry cygwin1.dll with me.
> And it sometimes conflicts with other POSIX emulation. Windows is not
> POSIX. Mingw is the closet (in terms of open source) thing that
> reflects native Windows development environment (I tried MS Visual
> Studio, just for fun, more header issues there).
> 
> They just don't lack the headers, they lack functionality behind those
> headers too.
> 
>> If somebody came to the busybox list and went "I want to build against
>> newlib+libgloss, but my build environment hasn't got these headers, I need 
>> you
>> to add them to the busybox source for me", there's no way we'd do that.  Your
>> position is that Windows is different?  Special?
> 
> Windows is different (call it special if you want). Not a good thing
> though. I'd never work on Windows if I had a choice.

i can feel your pain, as i know people that gave up on programming M$.


I just remembered about gnulib (http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/MODULES.html)
are you aware of there work ?

re,
 wh
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