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

2016-03-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ng PLplot (normally with complete success) on MinGW-w64/MSYS2. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state i

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

2016-03-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
h.exe (installed using the msys/bash package). For this case would LD_LIBRARY_PATH be available so that bash.exe user could ensure the use of the mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64 dll's (when both the Windows system and mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64 provide a dll with the same name)? Alan ___

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

2016-03-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2016-03-26 02:04-0700 Greg Jung wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 3:59 PM, Alan W. Irwin > wrote: > >> >> So let's assume a native version of PLplot is built on the >> MinGW-w64/MSYS2 platform against the mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64 packages >> using the c

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

2016-03-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
but I am glad someone (Greg?) is attempting to do that on the MinGW-w64/MSYS2 platform. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equatio

Re: [Msys2-users] update-core update as MSYS2 release criteria

2016-03-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ase modify that wiki page to be consistent with the removal of update-core? Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS eq

[Msys2-users] Please make available a constantly updated package list

2016-07-02 Thread Alan W. Irwin
pt for PLplot, but that decision obviously depends on what CMake version is supplied by all important platforms including your particular platform, and I hate to rely on one-year-old information about the CMake version available in your case. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astron

Re: [Msys2-users] Please make available a constantly updated package list

2016-07-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
falling behind the msys/x86_64 packaging of cmake in this regard? (CMake development is quite active so there is a substantial difference in both features and bug fixes between 3.4.1 and 3.5.2 even though the release dates of those two versions are not that far apart). Alan __

Re: [Msys2-users] cyclic dependencies found

2016-08-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
as well.) Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net);

Re: [Msys2-users] question (error during installation process)

2016-08-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ng so some older version from Debian will likely not work at all. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state impl

Re: [Msys2-users] Problem with libpeas? gedit.exe x86_64 - Entry Point Not Found -- libpeas-gtk-1.0-0.dll

2016-09-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
he one that actually does those rebuilds? Furthermore, does your comment above mean that most/all of the software in that rolling release has to be rebuilt due to the gcc version change, and if so is there an E.T.A. for that rebuild to complete? Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astron

Re: [Msys2-users] Problem with libpeas? gedit.exe x86_64 - Entry Point Not Found -- libpeas-gtk-1.0-0.dll

2016-09-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
tion to MinGW-w64/MSYS2 because it has the potential to be extraordinarily useful for many free software packagers and users on Windows. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww

[Msys2-users] Helping out with MinGW-w64/MSYS2

2016-10-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
to do that for myself in the future, but I cannot find anything on this topic. Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the Free

Re: [Msys2-users] Problems compiling very simple c++ project with cmake

2016-10-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
quot; or "MSYS Makefiles" generators. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation fo

Re: [Msys2-users] symbol defined in dll, but not found?

2016-11-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
at how the other library symbols were made visible (typically by using __declspec( dllexport ) on Windows and __attribute__ ( ( visibility( "default" ) ) on Linux) and copy that method for this currently invisible symbol to make it visible. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astr

Re: [Msys2-users] symbol defined in dll, but not found?

2016-11-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2016-11-30 23:09+0100 Mario Emmenlauer wrote: > > Dear Alan, > > On 30.11.2016 21:48, Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> On 2016-11-30 20:06+0100 Mario Emmenlauer wrote: >> [...] >>> The symbol is defined in libvtkCommonCore-7.1.dll: >>> nm ../../bin

Re: [Msys2-users] man files for clang

2016-12-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
age back to MSYS2 so everyone can benefit from what you have done. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state imp

Re: [Msys2-users] Fwd: Re: man files for clang

2016-12-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
and it might turn out at some stage that they will help in the packaging effort for PLplot on both those platforms. Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programm

Re: [Msys2-users] could msys2 have a "stable" repository?

2017-02-19 Thread Alan W. Irwin
mplementer such choices are up to you. Anyhow, good luck with this potentially valuable project, and I hope the URL's I found above concerning the various choices made by other distros concerning package stability will be of some help to you. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin

[Msys2-users] How can external volunteers help with the MSYS2 effort?

2017-02-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
lready exists, and I have just not been able to find it. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementati

Re: [Msys2-users] How can external volunteers help with the MSYS2 effort?

2017-02-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ys2/wiki/Contributing-to-MSYS2> that building and creating packages does contribute to MSYS2, but the current situation is (as far as I can tell) that is not explicitly stated anywhere on the three pages above. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation

Re: [Msys2-users] How can external volunteers help with the MSYS2 effort?

2017-02-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
done with regard to maintaining packages, having two-tiered rolling releases with different stability, etc., will give MSYS2 developers some useful ideas about the way they want their project to evolve. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with

[Msys2-users] Is it possible to install and minimally use MinGW-w64/MSYS2 with a space in the installation prefix?

2017-05-07 Thread Alan W. Irwin
omplement the tests on Linux and MinGW-w64/MSYS2. Therefore, if anyone here has relevant experience on that platform as well, we would be interested in your comments. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, Universi

Re: [Msys2-users] xgettext problem with gtkbuilder xml files

2017-05-20 Thread Alan W. Irwin
. So I am relying solely on my package dependency expertise in answering you, and you should keep that caveat in mind. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Progr

Re: [Msys2-users] MinTTY update issues

2017-06-11 Thread Alan W. Irwin
e way. I completely agree with you this is not the proper tone to take to motivate unpaid volunteers who are donating their precious spare time to this project. But I can also see why this user is frustrated by the lack of response so far. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin As

[Msys2-users] Current problems installing MinGW-w64/MSYS2 on the wine-staging platform

2017-06-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ng), then can you tell me how do I get access to that latest version? Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS e

Re: [Msys2-users] Current problems installing MinGW-w64/MSYS2 on the wine-staging platform

2017-06-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
be able to confirm your non-staging results. Alan On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 11:19 PM Alan W. Irwin wrote: The MinGW-w64/MSYS2 wiki at <https://github.com/msys2/msys2/wiki> refers to <https://github.com/TeaCI/tea-ci/wiki/Msys2-on-Wine> for instructions about how to install MinG

Re: [Msys2-users] Current problems installing MinGW-w64/MSYS2 on the wine-staging platform

2017-06-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-06-16 20:25-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: It appears that there is a package called wine on the wine-staging Debian Jessie repository that conflicts with the winehq-staging package I currently have installed. And the description of that package refers to "standard" Wine. So I a

Re: [Msys2-users] Current problems installing MinGW-w64/MSYS2 on the wine-staging platform

2017-06-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-06-17 00:33-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: In the staging case, I get the following results: wine@raven> nice -19 wine msys2-x86_64-20161025.exe err:ole:CoCreateInstanceEx apartment not initialised err:ole:CoCreateInstanceEx apartment not initialised err:ole:CoCreateInstanceEx apartment

Re: [Msys2-users] Current problems installing MinGW-w64/MSYS2 on the wine-staging platform

2017-06-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-06-17 01:23-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: So it is obviously time for me to transcribe and reorganize these results as an official wine-staging bug report. See <https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43193>. I would appreciate it if those who can confirm this bug (like Norber

[Msys2-users] wxwidgets ABI incompatibility

2017-06-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
the platform developers decided to change the official gcc compiler version used to build the platform packages) that precaution should guarantee freedom from ABI incompatibility issues such as the one Arjen encountered above. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affilia

Re: [Msys2-users] wxwidgets ABI incompatibility

2017-06-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-06-28 09:07+0200 David Macek wrote: On 28. 6. 2017 3:55, Alan W. Irwin wrote: So assuming you are not going to extend that patch (or ideally from my point of view drop it), I think from my google research the solution to the above error is simply for Arjen to add -fabi-version=8 as a g

Re: [Msys2-users] wxwidgets ABI incompatibility

2017-06-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-06-28 10:24+0200 David Macek wrote: On 28. 6. 2017 10:15, Alan W. Irwin wrote: Let's assume that your repositories are all ABI compatible (i.e., built with g++ compiler versions that correspond to just one -fabi-version number) as they should be. Then a fundamental issue is a use

Re: [Msys2-users] wxWidgets ABI mismatch again.

2017-07-11 Thread Alan W. Irwin
atomic build process that MSYS2 has now. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar

Re: [Msys2-users] wxWidgets ABI mismatch again.

2017-07-11 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ution from another rolling-release distro) before MSYS2 can provide that guarantee as well. Alan ______ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with t

Re: [Msys2-users] wxWidgets ABI mismatch again.

2017-07-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2017-07-12 10:48-0400 Wayne Stambaugh wrote: On 7/11/2017 8:29 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: On 2017-07-11 15:17-0400 Wayne Stambaugh wrote: I am building KiCad from source so the ABI will be determined by the gcc configuration which I'm guessing from the error message is 1011. There is

Re: [Msys2-users] How to complete the installation of PyQt4?

2017-08-10 Thread Alan W. Irwin
got pkgfile to work for you. But if it did not work for you please point to some other alternative (if there is one) to search all installed AND uninstalled MinGW-w64/MSYS2 packages for a particular file. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Departme

Re: [Msys2-users] How to complete the installation of PyQt4?

2017-08-10 Thread Alan W. Irwin
7;s packaging lead by continuing to support the pyqtconfig module by using configure.py rather than configure-ng.py to build the mingw-w64-pyqt4 package. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Vic

Re: [Msys2-users] How to complete the installation of PyQt4?

2017-08-10 Thread Alan W. Irwin
case. So mingw-w64-x86_64-python3-pyqt4 should do that as well. Well, that clarifies that. Thanks very much for investigating this. You are welcome. Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victor

[Msys2-users] Request to package CamlIDL

2017-11-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
CMake-based build system should be trivial. Since I am good at creating such build systems, I would be willing to contribute such a build system for CamlIDL if there is interest from someone else here in doing the actual packaging of that software for MinGW-w64/MSYS2. Alan __

Re: [Msys2-users] one Makefile for all

2019-03-13 Thread Alan W. Irwin
make approach. But you would learn a lot that I guarantee would be helpful to you in other projects (at least that is my experience with CMake over the last decade) so it would be time well spent. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-

Re: [Msys2-users] one Makefile for all

2019-03-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ld be helpful to you in other projects (at least that is my experience with CMake over the last decade) so it would be time well spent. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the

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

2019-12-07 Thread Alan W. Irwin
tains URL's from which you can download the bash source code. I hope that gives you a start in answering your question. Alan __________ Alan W. Irwin Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Eph

Re: [Msys2-users] Qt with Msys2 posix layer

2020-02-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
and if so, does it use the (extremely slow) Cygwin X library to achieve that. By the way, if you do make such Cygwin Qt versus MSYS2 native Qt comparisons, I would like to hear about your results to help give the PLplot development team some guidance on the best platform bet for Windows Qt interacti

Re: [Msys2-users] Broken libraries loads after updating msys2

2020-06-02 Thread Alan W. Irwin
__ Alan W. Irwin Research affiliation with the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada. Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project