On Mon, 13 Feb 2023, Ziemowit Laski wrote:
Not at all - it's entirely a technical thing. MSYS, which is a fork of
cygwin, is an environment to provide a full POSIX (i.e. unix) environment
on top of Windows, which involves a lot of trickery to make system calls
like fork() work on top of a OS
> Not at all - it's entirely a technical thing. MSYS, which is a fork of
> cygwin, is an environment to provide a full POSIX (i.e. unix) environment
> on top of Windows, which involves a lot of trickery to make system calls
> like fork() work on top of a OS that doesn't provide that.
But that's
On Sat, 11 Feb 2023, Ziemowit Laski wrote:
Thanks for the detailed explanation. Now my head hurts.
I guess by "native" you mean those apps that do not depend on MSYS/Cygwin
DLL functionality? All of the apps are native.
Yeah, more or less. They use the regular win32 api just like MSVC
Thanks for the detailed explanation. Now my head hurts.
I guess by "native" you mean those apps that do not depend on MSYS/Cygwin
DLL functionality? All of the apps are native.
So I can definitely understand the appeal of MinGW. But what about
MSYS? Is it some sort of copyright/GPL avoidance
On Fri, 10 Feb 2023, Ziemowit Laski wrote:
The build uses /bin/bash, which is configured as x86_64-pc-msys, and
that's where the rewriting happens. I always assumed that MinGW was
basically built on top of MSYS.
No, that's a rather incorrect understanding.
MinGW is an environment which
> paths; it's msys2 which does the whole unix-style paths and which
> automatically tries to rewrite command line arguments as if they were
> paths, with some level of heuristics.
Yes, this makes sense. The build uses /bin/bash, which is configured as
x86_64-pc-msys, and that's where the
On Thu, 9 Feb 2023, Ziemowit Laski wrote:
These changes seem fine, but you're apparently not touching the case at
the top, used for --version, where it is calling 'rc.exe /?'. For me, this
That's an interesting point. I guess MinGW is "smart enough" not to rewrite
"/?" because it doesn't
On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 10:02 PM Ziemowit Laski wrote:
>
> > FWIW, this setup is definitely being used by lots of others already - so
> > whenever there's such an issue, the main question to ask is why others
> > haven't run into the issue before. But improvements are definitely
> > welcome!
>
>
> FWIW, this setup is definitely being used by lots of others already - so
> whenever there's such an issue, the main question to ask is why others
> haven't run into the issue before. But improvements are definitely
> welcome!
You have to have PATH set up so that rc.exe is found inside the
Hi,
On Sat, 4 Feb 2023, Ziemowit Laski wrote:
I've been bringing up FFMPEG using Visual Studio 2022 and the MINGW64
environment, and came across sundry things that absolutely needed fixes,
so I thought I'd submit them as a series of small patches for you to
consider. Here is the first
Hello Gentlefolk,
I've been bringing up FFMPEG using Visual Studio 2022 and the MINGW64
environment, and came across sundry things that absolutely needed fixes, so I
thought I'd submit them as a series of small patches for you to consider. Here
is the first patch.
--Zem
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