--- Jeremie Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 07:18:40PM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote: > > > Mark Paulus wrote: > > > >I guess that's a question for the group. Does cygwin present > > >enough of an extension to Microsoft windows that is could be > > >considered and independant "flavour" of a kernel, and thus > > >require another kernel-type indicator? > > > Identifying by C runtime I think would be most beneficial, -cygwin > or > > -msvcrt. > > First, I must say that i'm not really aware of windows things, and > have > never used mingw32 or cygwin. However i'm facing the same sort of > problem since i'm slowly trying to get debian packages compiled for > DOS > with DJGPP... > > I don't really get what you mean by "C runtime" (libc ?). However i > don't think it is appropriate (at least it doesn't follow what > already > exist.) Think of hurd-i386 or (free|net)bsd-i386. > > One point is that everything that could coexist on a system should be > the same debian architecture. Imagine a system with a windows kernel > (windows, but maybe wine? reactos?). One may be able to install > binaries > compiled with mingw32 as well as cygwin, which could co-exist.
yes, all of these things are part of the runtime environment. Let's say, they are not the architecture, but for debian they are. in fact, i think the architure model is too simple. I install my mingw packages under debian i386, and run them with wine. i386 is the architecture. > Another point is that the libc's used by these things are doing much > to > give a UNIX-like API to windows. This will make programs built with > them > badly coexist with "native" windows programs (i'm thinking of > pathnames > and such things...). Maybe it's bad enough not to use w32-i386, maybe > not... so that is one issue, but not a killer problem. > > So win32 is not enough, and cygwin is too much ;) For my case, dos is > not enough, djgpp is too much. Can someone think of a word that would > reflect the situation ? Three concepts, not one 1. runtime 2. operating system 3. architecture mike ===== James Michael DuPont http://introspector.sourceforge.net/ __________________________________________________________________ Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - http://mail.yahoo.de Bis zu 100 MB Speicher bei http://premiummail.yahoo.de
