On Saturday, 25 March 2000, Alain CULOS writes:
> On one hand you are right : for some things suffixes do not matter in windows
+ but
> for others they do.
> have the extension right so it calls the right program. Or the right click fo
+ r a
> contextual menu (edit/run/...).
Ah, ok. I never use(d) the mouse for running programs and stuff :-)
> > Uhm, I don't understand, what do you mean, forget about it ?
>
> Not use cygwin dll.
>
>
> > Anything
> > you compile with gcc under cygwin will be using the cygwin*.dll
> > compatibility layer.
>
> Not true.
Ah, ok.
> One of the POSIX layers relied upon has to do with file access. If you use cy
+ gwin,
> then opening a file will match both DOS path conventions and cygnus's
> implementation of the unix conventions. On the other hand if you just use
> -mno-cygwin, you'll be left with only the DOS conventions which should always
+ work
> unless you have a complex setup that uses unix style pathnames and it is too
+ much
> of a bother to change.
Yep. But we're using guile, and that has posix (file etc) interfaces.
Currently, the only usable way of compiling guile, is to include these,
which means needing cygwin.dll. Maybe some of these can just be
configure'd away. I may try that. However, I still feel that dropping
cygwin.dll is a non-issue, once we're in sync with the new cygnus release.
> So that's the reason : guile.
Yup.
> I'll be happy to wait till you get time for that and let me know when you nee
+ d a
> hand for testing installation.
I'll be sending requests for help and testing to this list, don't worry.
Greetings,
Jan.
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