Re: g++ and c++17 filesystem

2020-11-24 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2020-11-24 07:31, Kristian Ivarsson via Cygwin wrote: On 11/24/2020 4:32 AM, Kristian Ivarsson via Cygwin wrote: all the std::filesystem implementations I've seen for Windows The implementation on top of Cygwin is not "for Windows", it's "for Cygwin", i.e., "for Posix". And for Cygwin

Re: g++ and c++17 filesystem

2020-11-18 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2020-11-18 17:08, Doug Henderson via Cygwin wrote: On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 at 13:50, Kristian Ivarsson wrote: The only purpose CYGWIN have is to make/build posix-applications runnable on Windows and applications usually have user defined input, such as paths etc, and on Windows that input is

Re: g++ and c++17 filesystem

2020-11-18 Thread Doug Henderson via Cygwin
On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 at 13:50, Kristian Ivarsson via Cygwin wrote: > > > The only purpose CYGWIN have is to make/build posix-applications runnable on > Windows and applications usually have user defined input, such as paths etc, > and on Windows that input is usually Windows-native-paths unless

Re: g++ and c++17 filesystem

2020-11-18 Thread Eliot Moss
On 11/18/2020 4:18 PM, Kristian Ivarsson wrote: I would agree that if you want an executable that acts and feels more like a Windows native application, then mingw is probably what you want. Cygwin is if you want something that acts and feels more like a Posix thing ... which means it

Re: g++ and c++17 filesystem

2020-11-18 Thread Norton Allen
On 11/18/2020 3:46 PM, Kristian Ivarsson via Cygwin wrote: Is there any other use cases for CYGWIN than to build applications running in Windows ? Do people use CYGWIN (shell) to operate or monitor their applications ? For all other use cases than the development (the shell) I cannot see why

Re: g++ and c++17 filesystem

2020-11-18 Thread Kristian Ivarsson via Cygwin
> I would agree that if you want an executable that acts and feels more like a > Windows native application, then mingw is probably what you want. Cygwin is > if you want something that acts and feels more like a Posix thing ... which > means it will be oriented to Posix style paths. To be

Re: g++ and c++17 filesystem

2020-11-18 Thread Eliot Moss
I would agree that if you want an executable that acts and feels more like a Windows native application, then mingw is probably what you want. Cygwin is if you want something that acts and feels more like a Posix thing ... which means it will be oriented to Posix style paths. EM -- Problem

Re: g++ and c++17 filesystem

2020-11-18 Thread Kristian Ivarsson via Cygwin
> 18 nov. 2020 kl. 17:26 skrev René Berber via Cygwin : > > On 11/18/2020 3:00 AM, Kristian Ivarsson via Cygwin wrote: > On 11/17/2020 9:15 AM, Kristian Ivarsson via Cygwin wrote: >>> The filesystem-library as a part of C++17 seems to have some defects and flaws in the

Re: g++ and c++17 filesystem

2020-11-17 Thread René Berber via Cygwin
On 11/17/2020 9:15 AM, Kristian Ivarsson via Cygwin wrote: The filesystem-library as a part of C++17 seems to have some defects and flaws in the cygwin-package and pretty much every lexical- and canonical operation works in mysterious ways (or not at all) [snip]