On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 01:16:56PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
> Enrico Forestieri a écrit :
> >That indeed would be great, but I think that the cygwin target has
> >some peculiarities not easily mimicked by a native build.
>
> IMHO, no need to mimic anything, he who want a cygwin functionality
> should use the cygwin mode... I am not sure I am not saying something
> stupid her :-0
I don't think it's stupid. That would mean detecting at runtime if
we are a cygwin app or not. See below.
> >So, I agree with you that a part of the fix can also be applied
> >to the plain win32 target, but I do not think that we can avoid
> >all the "#ifdef __CYGWIN__" switches.
>
> Maybe not all but any which can be deleted is good. Is there a simple
> way to check at runtime if we are running in a cygwin environment?
> If yes, this check could be used as a replacement for the #ifdef,
> couldn't it? (I hate #ifdef ;-))
The following C program prints "I am a cygwin app" when compiled with
the cygwin gcc, and "I am a native win32 app" when compiled with mingw
(-mno-cygwin, in my case).
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
int main(void)
{
if (access("/cygdrive", F_OK) == 0)
puts("I am a cygwin app");
else
puts("I am a native win32 app");
return 0;
}
> >I think I can also tweak os_win32.C, but I do not dare to do that
> >without permission. I dared to modify the cygwin target because it
> >was my impression that it was being left behind and I didn't want
> >it going down the sink like the OS2 target...
>
> Well, Angus is "retired", at least that's what he says ;-)... I am sure
> that Michael Gerz would be happy and _I_ would happy that you take the
> leadership for the windows platform :-). That makes the count for
> potential windows developers, or did I forget somebody? Also I am very
> short of time these days and you seem to have a lot knowledge in all
> that stuff. Once your cygwin patch is accepted for 1.4.x, I would
> suggest that you base your work against trunk.
>
> What do you think?
I think I should be considered in the same position as Angus ;-)
I cannot assure neither a continuous commitment nor a prompt reply
to the list, due to my workload. Anyway, it is fun for me and I find
that I am spending some night hours on the LyX sources. It seems
that LyX has some addictive effect ;-)
Then you should consider that, even if I am very proficient in C, I
should be regarded as a real C++ newbie. I also think that Michael
or you are good candidates to that leadership ;-)
> Thanks for all the good explanations,
You're welcome
--
Enrico
