On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 09:44:20PM -0300, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: >On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 08:09:54PM -0300, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: >>>smartmontools now has support for Cygwin in CVS. There's a full >>>package I made for 1.5.7 (just missed a postinstall script for >>>/etc/smartd.conf - will be in 5.30) that can be installed >>>through setup.exe. >>> >>>And a smartctl binary compiled with -mno-cygwin. >> >>...which would make it not particularly good news for cygwin... > >Correct, but I consider it good news if you have Cygwin, don't >have MinGW, can't afford MSVC, and also want to make a native >Windows binary.
"Don't have MinGW" doesn't make much sense. If you are careful you don't need anything specific to MinGW to run binaries compiled with it. >>-mno-cygwin means "no cygwin" which means that cygwin is not involved >>in this port at all. You used cygwin's compiler to build it but you >>cut cygwin out of the equation by specifying -mno-cygwin, making it >>essentially a native windows port like you'd get if you used MSVC. > >Yes, but that was only to provide a smartctl binary for non Cygwin >users. smartd hasn't yet been ported by Christian because -mno-cygwin >and MSVC lack at least syslog.h, but it works with Cygwin. So you're talking about mixing binaries compiled with and without cygwin. Hmm. >May I ask why /bin/mail isn't in Cygwin ? Nobody volunteered ? >http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-07/msg00460.html doesn't >help. Basically it's because we thought you might need it and we're all really mean so we're purposely not including it. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
