On 16 December 2010 14:12, Earnie <ear...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: >> >> What is GNU triplet for MSYS then? How different it is from the >> MinGW tripplet? Is it just a different ABI then? >> > > There should never be a publicly declared triplet for MSYS. We have > stated that it is a private matter since only the developers of MSYS > would use it. >
Fair enough. How is it compiled from source (bootstrap steps if such are required)? What compiler do you use to compile MSYS from source? Does it make sense to have msys-compatible precompiled Gtk, Qt etc available from Debian-Msys port? Can I use compiled for mingw.org libraries in MSYS environment? Can I use compiled for mingw-w64 libraries in MSYS environment? Can I use Visual Studio compiled libraries in MSYS environment? The answers to above questions will tell us whether dpkg should have msys defined as debian-arch/os. > <quote site="http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS";> > A common misunderstanding is MSYS is "UNIX on Windows", MSYS by itself > does not contain a compiler or a C library, therefore does not give the > ability to magically port UNIX programs over to Windows nor does it > provide any UNIX specific functionality like case-sensitive filenames. > Users looking for such functionality should look to Cygwin > <http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Cygwin> or Microsoft's Interix > <http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Interix> instead. > </quote> > I have read the website. My first understanding that it is user-space around Mingw.org runtime which runs on Windows platforms to provide user tools to e.g. have a shell capable of running autoconf and etc. Thus I thought that we can provide msys as a suite of packages compiled as part of Debian-Mingw port. That way you could install Debian-Mingw port in a chroot and instead of using cross-compiler use e.g. linux + wine + msys = to get msys shell which is equivalent to msys shell on Windows. Hope this makes sense. As you can see I'm not entirely sure what MSYS is and what MSYS isn't and where that border lies on the mingw-cygwin-w64 spectrum. > Earnie > With regards, Dmitrijs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
