Chris, The issue with MinGW is known, but has been a lower priority due to the availability of MS Visual Studio for free.
> 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. This is interesting, since I've been using the MS Visual Studio 10.0 without problems for any test programs. Perhaps it was some ordering of header files. Normally only header files in /usr/include are used, and they handle all the Windows dependencies. Could you send your hello world file to test? > 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. Unfortunately, only recently have any issues with uninstall been reported on Windows Server 2008 (based on Windows 7) have been reported. No problems had occurred with uninstall during our testing. So the information of your problems is the first time any problems with Windows 7 uninstall. Can you describe what the problem was with the uninstall? Otherwise we cannot fix it. > 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. Since I only found out 2 weeks ago about the problem with uninstall on Windows Server 2008, what information to you have the uninstall is a KNOWN problem? Sincerely Jeff Fellin -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Main, Chris Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 09:26 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [uwin-users] The claim that UWIN works on Windows 7 is misleading 2012-08-06 in both cases. -----Original Message----- From: Glenn Fowler [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 16 September 2013 13:44 To: Main, Chris; [email protected] Subject: Re: [uwin-users] The claim that UWIN works on Windows 7 is misleading 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. > 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. 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