what was the YYYY-MM-DD of the uwin-base and uwin-dev you installed?

On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 09:27:01 +0000 Main, Chris wrote:
> 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.

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