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 _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
