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Re: [Maxima] Fw: [Gcl-devel] Re: gcl on ms windows
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Mike Thomas |
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Re: [Maxima] Fw: [Gcl-devel] Re: gcl on ms windows |
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Fri, 22 Mar 2002 03:06:09 +1000 |
Hi Camm.
> > I had previously thought that this would require a build of gcl-tk,
which
> > meant working around the "fork()" in "gcl-tk/guis.c". This means that a
> > Mingw32 xmaxima executable will just need to be built from the xmaxima
> > script using freewrap as previosly done by Dave- what a relief!
> >
>
> This sounds like a pleasantly low overhead option. What is the matter
> with fork() on Mingw32? Not that it is critical, but one day I'd like
> to develop a gtk interface for gcl.
"fork()" does not exist on Windows, nor does the concept of parent and child
processes. Cygwin and similar Unix emulation band-aids jump through some
major hoops to recreate this.
Mingw32, is a purely native Win32 version of gcc, which uses the Microsoft
Windows supplied "msvcrt.dll" as the basis for it's C runtime, as does MS
Visual C. For these reasons, fork() is not part of Mingw32.
Cheers
Mike Thomas.