Re: [Gcl-devel] 2.6.2.....

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

Mike Thomas <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Camm.
> 
> Thanks very much for that and also your ongoing help.
> 
> I'm downloading the new Version_2_6_2c2 tag now and will continue testing 
> when I can, over the next few days.
> 
> > On the wine front, you will be happy to know that gcl installs and
> > runs thereunder, as does msys, but there is currently a limitation in
> > wine that disables subprocess spawning, hence I can't compile via
> > gcc.  I took a look at the wine source, and it seems addressable in
> > principle, but at least 75% of my motivation in doing this has just
> > disappeared, freeing up more time for other tasks.
> 
> That is good news.  In case you ever again feel constrained to do so, Linux 
> -> Windows cross compilation with MinGW32
> tools is apparently quite common:
> 
>    http://www.mingw.org/mingwfaq.shtml#faq-cross
> 

Yes, this is so but for one GCL specific wrinkle -- we use the
produced executable at compile time to finish building the final
image.  This will require GCL specific work in the makefiles to get
cross compilation to work.

> and an archive search on:
> 
>    http://www.mingw.org/lists.shtml
> 
> will provide answers to common problems.  I hate to think what a debugging 
> session would bring on, though!
> 

Thanks for these!  AFAICT, your breakthrough indicates that the wine
initiative should be placed on the back burner for the foreseeable
future.  Thanks again!

> Cheers
> 
> Mike Thomas
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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