Using Windows 7 Professional Service Pack 1 (64 bit). I installed the base and devel UWIN packages with no problems.
The next issue was installing a compiler. My first thought was MinGW, but after getting nowhere fast I found an old mailing list comment that no one had been using that since Microsoft made its compilers available for free download. So I duly installed the Microsoft SDK, which installs the compiler for Visual Studio 10.0. I tried to compile the standard C hello world file, but it failed (pre-processor showed that SIZE_T_DEFINED was being set to 1 in a UWIN header file _before_ the typedef of size_t was encountered in the Microsoft header file, just for the record). I gave up at this point, assuming that this version of the compiler is not supported, and noticing the lack of replies in the mailing list archives to problems like this in the past. Whilst disappointing, I consider that experience fair enough. What has annoyed me sufficiently to go to the trouble of signing up for this mailing list is that it has taken me two hours to manually uninstall UWIN, after discovering that the Uninstaller does not work, and that there are no instructions for how to do it manually. I think that is very poor considering it is a known problem. I think it would be courteous if someone with write access to the UWIN Overview web page took a few minutes to add a warning that uninstalling UWIN from Windows 7 is an undocumented manual process. This email and any files transmitted with it may be confidential, legally privileged and protected in law and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any view or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of ViaSat. If you have received this Email in error please contact the sender by return and confirm that its contents have been destroyed without further distribution or disclosure. Please email [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with any questions relating to this disclaimer. ViaSat has Registered Offices at Sandford Lane, Wareham, Dorset BH20 4DY. The company is registered in England and Wales under no: 3007498. _______________________________________________ uwin-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/uwin-users
