Mitch Capper wrote:
> > In Gnulib, we use
> > #if defined _WIN32 && !defined __CYGWIN__
>
> If I understand correctly anywhere I am using _WIN32 I should update it to
> this dual check as cygwin may have this _WIN32 definition but it should be
> treated not as _WIN32.
Yes.
> > Yes, that's an ad
Thanks Bruno for such detailed notes. I will start to work on cleaning up
the patches to prep for the mailing list.
> When a package has complicated fork/exec logic, generally it's advisable
to
> use the posix_spawn facility when possible. This provides not only
portability
> to native Windows; i
Hello Mitch,
> I have been working on a high level of windows compatibility for several
> GNU and other related open source software without the traditional
> emulation layers/mingw requirements. Overall it has had great success in
> my mind, multiple dozens of GNU related packages compiled from
