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Sascha Schumann

22 years ago

Hi Wez,

now that the dependency on VC has been dropped, what would it
take to get mingw32 build support?

- Sascha

Pierre-Alain Joye

22 years ago

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 17:01:23 +0100 (CET)
Sascha Schumann <sascha@schumann.cx> wrote:

>     Hi Wez,
>
>     now that the dependency on VC has been dropped, what would it
>     take to get mingw32 build support?

Should be really great :).

By the way (or a bit OT), I got little little success by running console
VC tools using wine on linux, anyone experencied with these tools?

pierre

Wez Furlong

22 years ago

When I tried to enable win32 specific extensions (such as COM)
under cygwin, I found that a lot of the win32 api headers were
missing, so the build failed.

I suspect that the same problem will manifest with mingw32.
It's nothing that downloading the platform SDK won't solve,
but if you download that, you've got the MS build tools anyway.

I don't plan to look at mingw32 myself, and I don't want to
deal with patches for it until I've completed the features
I have planned for the build system; once done, adding mingw
support should be reasonably simple (just change the object
and library suffixes and compiler flags...).

--Wez.

Sascha Schumann

22 years ago

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Wez Furlong wrote:

> When I tried to enable win32 specific extensions (such as COM)
> under cygwin, I found that a lot of the win32 api headers were
> missing, so the build failed.

Cygwin is a Unix portability layer, not a win32. :)

mingw's header set should be fairly complete.

http://www.mingw.org/mingwfaq.shtml#faq-w32api

> I don't plan to look at mingw32 myself, and I don't want to
> deal with patches for it until I've completed the features
> I have planned for the build system; once done, adding mingw
> support should be reasonably simple (just change the object
> and library suffixes and compiler flags...).

Will there be an abstraction similar to our current m4
infrastructure? (I have not looked at the .js yet)

- Sascha

Wez Furlong

22 years ago

> > When I tried to enable win32 specific extensions (such as COM)
> > under cygwin, I found that a lot of the win32 api headers were
> > missing, so the build failed.
>
>     Cygwin is a Unix portability layer, not a win32. :)

Sure, but you can use the win32 api from there, and some of
the headers used by COM are not present in cygwin install.

>     Will there be an abstraction similar to our current m4
>     infrastructure? (I have not looked at the .js yet)

Although there isn't right at this moment, there will be.

--Wez.