Re: [Msys2-users] VisualStudio MFC project

2020-02-26 Thread ralph engels
owlnext might be an alternative to MFC, its based on borlands old OWL and at some point they did have a mingw port though i seem to remember the makefiles for it needed some updating.  Seems someone is allready looking into updating the makefiles so it might soon build with a mingw based gcc

Re: [Msys2-users] gendef is not found (missing)

2019-12-12 Thread ralph engels
Sorry i think its pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-tools-git and mingw-w64-x86_64-tools-git instead. Forgot that Msys2 uses the latest avaliable api. Den 12-12-2019 kl. 10:53 skrev Liu Hao: 在 2019/12/12 14:26, Il'dar Al'Miev 写道: Dear All, hello, i installed Msys2 in my computer. now i need to use

Re: [Msys2-users] gendef is not found (missing)

2019-12-12 Thread ralph engels
pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-tools mingw-w64-x86_64-tools should give you gendef. Den 12-12-2019 kl. 10:53 skrev Liu Hao: 在 2019/12/12 14:26, Il'dar Al'Miev 写道: Dear All, hello, i installed Msys2 in my computer. now i need to use "gendef"-command in my task. however, the bash-environment

Re: [Msys2-users] Some errors when compiling bash 5.0 on windows 10 using mingw-w64 and MSYS2.

2019-12-07 Thread ralph engels
This is the Msys2 user list so you are allready here :-) Alexy might be able to help, its still early here in europe so give it a few hours. Den 08-12-2019 kl. 07:10 skrev Amit Choudhary: > Hi, > > I have downloaded mingw-w64 and MSYS2. I downloaded bash-5.0.tar.gz. I > untarred and unzipped it

Re: [Msys2-users] Source code of bash used in MSYS2.

2019-12-07 Thread ralph engels
You might not have much luck building bash as a standalone executable for windows since it relies on some posix functionality that windows does not have, hence Msys2 Cygwin posix libraries are needed and unfortunatly those only come as a dll. There was an old project called downhill which emulated

Re: [Msys2-users] Boost.Test link error after latest update

2017-06-26 Thread ralph engels
Yup, i had the same problem. Had to add -Wl,--allow-multiple-definition to linker flags to get around it, but i noticed afterwards that the flag propagates down to everything i link to it, so not the best solution. Den 26-06-2017 kl. 11:49 skrev Jan Niklas Hasse: Hi, after doing `pacman

Re: [Msys2-users] BC Segmentation fault

2017-02-18 Thread ralph engels
Also problems with other packages after last update, perl modules locale and ssleay no longer work because the dll name changed( old one was versioned 3_22 new one uses 3_24), and these modules cannot be rebuilt because perl seems to have problems locating its own library (loads of undefined

[Msys2-users] small fix for flexlink building lablgtk now works out of the box

2017-01-21 Thread ralph engels
Small patch for flexlink incomming, patches flexlink to run strip on all binaries which in turn fixes building lablgtk. Also pulls in some posix functionality. diff -urN flexdll.old/Makefile flexdll/Makefile --- flexdll.old/Makefile2015-01-22 14:01:06.0 +0100 +++

Re: [Msys2-users] Avoid reference to libwinpthread-1.dll for 64-bit links

2017-01-20 Thread ralph engels
You might run into a problem using only the static libwinpthread on some packages, i speak from experience since im using a method similar to the suggested one. The problem is that some shared libraries linked to the static libwinpthread.a library will throw a multiple definition error if the

Re: [Msys2-users] gcc6 problem when source uses the restrict keyword

2016-10-29 Thread ralph engels
c11 by default and `restrict` is a key word there. > Such behavior can be disabled by requesting `-std=gnu89` explicitly. > > -- > Best regards, > lh_mouse > 2016-10-29 > > -----

Re: [Msys2-users] gcc6 problem when source uses the restrict keyword

2016-10-29 Thread ralph engels
around the bug by renaming restrict to something else -> restrictAction. Den 28-10-2016 kl. 22:46 skrev David Grayson: What about using __restrict instead? --David On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 7:46 AM, ralph engels <ralpheng...@gmail.com <mailto:ralpheng...@gmail.com>> wrote:

[Msys2-users] gcc6 problem when source uses the restrict keyword

2016-10-28 Thread ralph engels
Not sure whats changed ? but after updating to gcc6 the restrict keyword can no longer be used and throws an error. Supplying -std=c99 to flags does not fix it either. -- The Command Line: Reinvented for Modern

[Msys2-users] small fix for the python2 package

2016-10-22 Thread ralph engels
After a recuring error with the newest python2 package, i incorporated a small fix. The patch is attached to the message and replaces the patch with the same name. diff -urN Python-2.7.12.old/Lib/distutils/cygwinccompiler.py Python-2.7.12/Lib/distutils/cygwinccompiler.py ---

Re: [Msys2-users] clang-3.9.0 lldb allmost there

2016-10-10 Thread ralph engels
:50, ralph engels wrote: >> libcxx is still not building, and i fear my C++ fu is not strong enough >> to fix the problems, but maybe someone there can help with that part. > I would love to help out ;) W

Re: [Msys2-users] boost seems to not like gcc-6.2.0

2016-10-10 Thread ralph engels
not initialized and bails out. Also libcxx needs some work to build. Den 10-10-2016 kl. 13:06 skrev Ray Donnelly: > Will you make a Pull Request for this work Ralph? > > On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 10:32 PM, ralph engels <ralpheng...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Yup that fixed it, thanks :). >&g

Re: [Msys2-users] boost seems to not like gcc-6.2.0

2016-10-09 Thread ralph engels
a nogo though. Den 09-10-2016 kl. 11:12 skrev Alexey Pavlov: 2016-10-08 20:20 GMT+03:00 ralph engels <ralpheng...@gmail.com <mailto:ralpheng...@gmail.com>>: After upgrading to gcc-6.2.0 i can no longer build boost it seems, im still looking at the log because its rather large,

[Msys2-users] boost seems to not like gcc-6.2.0

2016-10-08 Thread ralph engels
After upgrading to gcc-6.2.0 i can no longer build boost it seems, im still looking at the log because its rather large, but it does not seem to contain any usefull messages. Anyone else ran into this problem ? i guess its related to gcc now defaulting to -std=c++14.

Re: [Msys2-users] why is msys2 accessing my ssd when its installed on the hd?

2016-05-14 Thread ralph engels
You probably have the TMP dir on your ssd, object files from compiling will usually end up there so its not uncommon. If you dont want continous writes to your ssd i suggest moving the TMP dir to a mechanic harddisk. You can do that by changing the TEMP and TMP variables to point to another

Re: [Msys2-users] Missing libxml that's not missing?

2016-03-22 Thread ralph engels
Aye i also have been getting that problem, i got around it by hand setting paths in my build script so that the mingw32 directories came first before the windows system directories. In most cases this works but i have seen a few edge cases that prove that it is not allways enough. In those