Re: Is this a known problem with getenv() ?

Oops, another typo as "Corinna" suggested. :-( -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Is this a known problem with getenv() ?

- Original Message - From: "Matthias Andree" For the records, the right way to do it is either: puts(getenv("PATH")); or printf("%s\n", getenv("PATH")); Oops, a simple typo. I'd used the correct printf syntax in the actual code, but mistyped it here. Just goes to show that even th

Re: Is this a known problem with getenv() ?

Regarding my problem (extra entries being added to my path when I run a program under X11) I've tracked the problem down a bit further and I've realised that it isn't a problem with getenv(). In actual fact, the problem seems to be caused by startxwin.bat and xterm, which both seem to be contribu

Re: Is this a known problem with getenv() ?

- Original Message - From: "John Emmas" I might just try experimenting with a very simple program and see if I still get the error I partially tracked down the problem, although I don't quite know how to solve it. If I write this simple console app:- #include #inc

Re: Is this a known problem with getenv() ?

- Original Message - From: "Corinna Vinschen" I can't reproduce this behaviour. Maybe the cygcheck output as described here Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html would help to figure out what's wrong on your machine. Many

Is this a known problem with getenv() ?

I first started using cygwin almost exactly a year ago. Because of other pressures I put it on the back burner (about 6 months ago) at which point, it was current. However, I haven't upgraded for about 6 months. This morning I needed to compile an app that uses the C call, getenv("PATH"); Let'

Re: Run a Cygwin (X) app from a DOS command line

- Original Message - From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Subject: Re: Run a Cygwin (X) app from a DOS command line You also need Cygwin's installation path in your Windows PATH variable. Thanks Larry. I already had that set up (C:\cygwin\bin) as well as C:\cygwin\lib but I can still only lau

Run a Cygwin (X) app from a DOS command line

Is it possible to run a Cygwin GUI app (i.e. requiring 'X') from a DOS terminal, as opposed to a bash terminal? After starting the X server I tried "cygstart path/to/my/program" but nothing happened. The app runs fine if I start it from a bash terminal. John -- Unsubscribe info: http://

Re: Cygwin struct alignment

- Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" I still can't shake the feeling that you're attempting to do this with trial and error and googling rather than reading the gcc documentation. Reading the documentation?? That's cheating, isn't it? ;-)) -- Unsubscribe info: http:/

Re: Cygwin struct alignment

Thanks Ralph, I haven't forgotten your link. My initial thoughts were that it seemed very impressive but there's a lot to take in. I'm intending to take a good hard look at it over the new year period John -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: Cygwin struct alignment

Christopher / Reini - thanks for your tips. - Original Message - From: "Reini Urban" Which "Cygwin compiler"? I have about a dozen compilers in my cygwin environment. If you mean gcc-core-3.4.4-3 or gcc-mingw-core-3.4.4-20050522-1 please say so. Oops sorry, I did miss out that impor

Re: Cygwin struct alignment

- Original Message - From: "Brian Ford" Subject: Re: Cygwin struct alignment Google attribute packed as I don't remember the exact syntax, but I fail to see how this actually helps your cause. Thanks Brian. It should help me because it will hopefully guarantee that structures of a gi

Re: Cygwin struct alignment

- Original Message - From: "Ralph Hempel" Sent: 24 December 2008 19:47 Subject: Re: Cygwin struct alignment John, if I understand you correctly, you are running up against a classic problem in embedded systems programming. Namely that you cannot assume anything about structure packing,

Re: Cygwin struct alignment

Thanks Ralph, I'm still experimenting at the moment but that was very helpful. John -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.c

Re: Cygwin struct alignment

- Original Message - From: "John Emmas" Subject: Cygwin struct alignment I'd assumed that Cygwin probably wouldn't use structure packing (only because I don't think Linux does). But I only get meaningful data with 8-byte packing. It looks as if Cygwin

Cygwin struct alignment

A program I'm building connects to a (Cygwin) server and receives the address of a shared memory segment. The memory contains an array of struct and you probably know that Microsoft (by default) aligns structure members on 8-byte boundaries (sometimes called 8-byte packing). As things stand, bot

Re: Named pipes (blocking problem)

- Original Message - From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Subject: Re: Named pipes (blocking problem) I'm going to have to change my email client so I have a reason to take advantage of this great feature you've added! ;-) Glad to be of service..! ;-) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.

Re: Named pipes (blocking problem)

Thanks for that link Christopher. It was very helpful. - Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" Subject: Re: Named pipes (blocking problem) Why are you duplicating the subject in the body of the message? I know this is something that irks you and you often complain about it

Re: Named pipes (blocking problem)

- Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" Sent: 22 December 2008 18:41 Subject: Re: Named pipes (blocking problem) Cygwin tries to emulate linux/POSIX. CreateNamedPipe is not a linux/POSIX function. Cygwin does not implement Windows functions. So, no, Cygwin does not implement

Re: Named pipes (blocking problem)

Many thanks guys - the blocking pipes are being created with PIPE_WAIT and without FILE_FLAG_OVERLAPPED and they successfully block if I build under VC++ but not when I build under Cygwin. I must confess, I don't understand the subtle difference between asynchronous operation and nonblocking oper

Named pipes (blocking problem)

I'm trying to build a program that implements inter-process communication using named pipes. Because the code needs to also work under Windows (MSVC++) it uses CreateNamedPipe(...) to create the pipes (described here):- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365150(VS.85).aspx If I understan

Re: GTK+ externals are unresolved

- Original Message - From: "M.O.D." Subject: GTK+ externals are unresolved Why are the GTK externals going unresolved on Cygwin? Thanks, Ollie $ cc `pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-2.0` murg.c -o murg /cyg

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

- Original Message - From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" Subject: Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge That may have been true until November 12. But in the last four weeks since X11R7.4, there have been ~500 messages on cygwin-xfree, including 30 announcements (including 3 xserver revisio

gdb is sooooo slow - is that normal?

I use an IDE called CodeBlocks to build and debug my Cygwin projects. The builds usually go okay but debugging is horrendously slow. CodeBlocks has a debugger output window which typically shows output like this (I assume this is either what's being sent to gdb or what's getting returned) - Thi

Installed packages info (and backups)

Does anyone know where cygwin stores its information about which packages are currently installed? e.g. is it in the Windows registry? Is it on the main cygwin drive or is it on the drive that contains my (local) package repository? Or does setup.exe work it all out at run time? Here's my scena

Re: Socket programming with Cygwin

- Original Message - From: "Brian Dessent" Subject: Re: Socket programming with Cygwin The call fails because addr is junk, because the demo passed "localhost" to inet_pton. According to the docs, this function only takes IP addresses. If you change simple_client_main.cpp to use an IP

Socket programming with Cygwin

Hi guys, For the past few weeks I've been struggling to compile a program that uses sockets. Actually, the program compiles and builds okay but the client can never connect to the server. This morning I found this simple example that implements client/server socket comms in just a few modules (

Re: qt4-devel

Please ignore. After a lot of persistence I eventually found this in cygwin-ports. John - Original Message - From: "John Emmas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: 29 November 2008 09:41 Subject: qt4-devel Hi - I've already asked this question at cygwin-ports but

qt4-devel

Hi - I've already asked this question at cygwin-ports but the question is also relevant to my normal cygwin installer (setup.exe) so maybe someone here can shed some light on it. Basically, I need to install qt4-devel but it isn't listed when I run setup.exe (even though qt3-devel is listed and e

Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH

- Original Message - From: "Corinna Vinschen" Sent: 25 November 2008 10:43 Subject: Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH $PATH is what you want and if you examine /bin resp. /usr/bin, you see that Cygwin puts all shared libs there for the above reason. /lib resp. /usr/lib only contain the static libs a

LD_LIBRARY_PATH

When I compile & build for my Linux installation, library files and shared objects go to /usr/lib/ If I then run an executable (from /usr/bin/) it will automatically find the shared objects because it expects them to be in /usr/lib/. This isn't happening for Cygwin and I'm finding that I need to

Re: [OT] Re: Opening a (cygwin-ised) DLL

- Original Message - Sent: 24 November 2008 18:56 Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Opening a (cygwin-ised) DLL "Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)" wrote: kernel32 is added by default because libcygwin.a depends on it. If you pass -mwindows to gcc during linking, then gdi32 is added as well. From: "Brian

[OT] Re: Opening a (cygwin-ised) DLL

- Original Message - From: "John Emmas" Sent: 24 November 2008 14:01 Subject: Re: Opening a (cygwin-ised) DLL Thanks Eric. That confirms my gut feeling but I just wanted to be sure :-) John Oops, I meant to ask another question (almost a variation on the same theme). D

Re: Opening a (cygwin-ised) DLL

Thanks Eric. That confirms my gut feeling but I just wanted to be sure :-) John -- 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/

Opening a (cygwin-ised) DLL

Suppose I'm building a Linux app under Cygwin and that app builds an executable and a DLL. At run time, what would be the preferred method for the executable to open the DLL under Cygwin - LoadLibrary() or dlopen() ? I'm assuming that dlopen() is better for portability - but given that the DLL i

Re: pthread_t

- Original Message - From: "John Emmas" Sent: 23 November 2008 12:12 Subject: Re: pthread_t this turned out to be due to the fact that the program is expecting 'pthread_t' and 'pthread_key_t' to be equivalent. Oops - I gave you duff information. in

Re: pthread_t

- Original Message - From: "Vaclav Haisman" Sent: 23 November 2008 11:05 Subject: Re: pthread_t The program is wrong. The pthread_t type is opaque. You should not expect anything. [...] The only header that you should use to get pthread_t type is pthread.h. Thanks Vaclav, you're abs

pthread_t

I'm trying to compile a program in which pthread_t is expected to be typedef long unsigned int pthread_t; the program builds fine under Linux but when I try to compile under Cygwin I see this error:- conflicting declaration 'typedef long unsigned int pthread_t' pthread_t has a previous de

Re: Using POSIX_SHM

- Original Message - From: "Corinna Vinschen" Sent: 12 November 2008 10:15 Subject: Re: Using POSIX_SHM Not yet. POSIX shared memory isn't available in the current Cygwin release 1.5.25. It will be available in the next major version 1.7.0. It doesn't exactly look like we will be able

Using POSIX_SHM

A project I'm working on is available for both Linux and Windows. The Linux version uses a preprocessor directive called USE_POSIX_SHM which (I think) configures it to use POSIX's shared memory model. The project can also be built for Windows in which case, USE_POSX_SHM isn't defined. I just wo

Re: cygwin g++ strictness

- Original Message - From: "Peter Rosin" Sent: 31 October 2008 15:19 Subject: Re: cygwin g++ strictness I some projects I'm involved with there's quite a bit of the following: [...] int.c:6: warning: int format, int32_t arg (arg 2) I must confess, this has been a source of irritatio

Re: cygwin g++ strictness

Thanks for everyone's help with this. I'm grateful for how quickly we tracked it down. I think I mentioned earlier that this is someone else's code and would involve me in changing dozens (if not hundreds) of modules. Casting seemed like the best workaround but as I've just found out from Dave,

Re: cygwin g++ strictness

- Original Message - From: "Václav Haisman" Sent: 31 October 2008 12:56 Subject: Re: cygwin g++ strictness I mean the -save-temps switch of GCC. Wow - that was really useful. In fact I tracked down the problem..! On Cygwin, '/usr/include/stdint.h' typedefs int32_t as long. The same

Re: cygwin g++ strictness

- Original Message - From: "Václav Haisman" Sent: 31 October 2008 11:54 Subject: Re: cygwin g++ strictness Try getting preprocessed source to see where int32_t get defined to anything else than typedef of int. I quite like this idea because I can see that this situation is going to ca

Re: cygwin g++ strictness

- Original Message - From: "Dave Korn" Sent: 31 October 2008 12:22 Subject: RE: cygwin g++ strictness You are creating temporaries here. If AddTwoInts modifies either of the int references it has, that will only change the temporaries; x and y will /not/ be modified. You'll be surpri

Re: cygwin g++ strictness

- Original Message - From: "Václav Haisman" Sent: 31 October 2008 11:54 Subject: Re: cygwin g++ strictness That has nothing to do with your problem. Reference to int and reference to long are two totally unrelated types. The implicit conversions of C/C++ only apply to values, not refere

Re: cygwin g++ strictness

- Original Message - From: "Václav Haisman" Sent: 31 October 2008 11:14 Subject: Re: cygwin g++ strictness Check what type is gint really is. I suspect the gint will be typedef for long. Long and int are two different types even though they are both 32bits wide on 32bit platforms. Tha

Re: canonicalize_file_name

Thanks for that advice, Corinna & Mark. John -- 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/

Re: cygwin g++ strictness

- Original Message - From: "John Emmas" Sent: 31 October 2008 08:21 Subject: Re: cygwin g++ strictness adding the compiler flag -fpermissive seems to have solved the problem. - Original Message - From: "Václav Haisman" Sent: 31 October 2008 10:07 S

Re: cygwin g++ strictness

- Original Message - From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Sent: 30 October 2008 22:23 Subject: Re: cygwin g++ strictness This is gcc/g++ question, not a Cygwin one. Please find an appropriate forum to ask this question if you can't find it in the available documentation. - Original Messa

Re: canonicalize_file_name

Thanks guys. According to something I read on the internet this afternoon Calling 'canonicalize_file_name(path)' is equivalent to calling 'realpath(path, NULL)' By a stroke of luck, 'realpath()' is defined in cygwin/stdlib.h so maybe I should use that? John -- Unsubscribe info: http:/

cygwin g++ strictness

When compiling things under cygwin I'm noticing that the compiler is very strict about things like typedef'd variables. For example if 'gint' is typedef'd as int and 'int32' is also typedef'd as int I can't pass an int32 to a function that requires gint. This means I'm having to put dozens of ca

canonicalize_file_name

On my Linux boxes, /usr/include/stdlib.h declares a function called 'canonicalize_file_name()'. AFAICT its purpose is to return the absolute path to a file (or folder) after resolving any symbolic links in the supplied path. Cygwin's stdlib.h doesn't contain this function. I just wondered if

Re: User name problem

- Original Message - From: "John Emmas" Sent: 27 October 2008 13:15 Subject: Re: User name problem Thanks Dave, It looks like I've somehow managed to get subscribed under 2 different names. I can't think how that happened. Oops, no - I was being stupid. Where i

Re: User name problem

Thanks Dave, It looks like I've somehow managed to get subscribed under 2 different names. I can't think how that happened. John -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.c

Re: User name problem

- Original Message - From: "John Emmas" Sent: 27 October 2008 12:58 Subject: User name problem What else can I do to unsubscribe (or how can I find out my user name)? Hmmm. to say I'm confused is an understatement. Not only has the unsubscribe page failed to

User name problem

I'm trying to unsubscribe. First I tried the automated service that's found in the FAQ's:- http://cygwin.com/ml/#faq but it keeps telling me I've supplied an invalid user name. I've tried every user name that I normally tend to use for mailing lists but it won't accept any of them. Next I tri

User name problem.

I'm trying to unsubscribe. First I tried the automated service that's found in the FAQ's:- http://cygwin.com/ml/#faq but it keeps telling me I've supplied an invalid user name. I've tried every user name that I normally tend to use for mailing lists but it won't accept any of them. Next I tri

Re: Linker Search Directories

- Original Message - From: "Brian Dessent" Subject: Re: Linker Search Directories John Emmas wrote: I'm about to build another library called "liblo". This library uses various functions with names like getaddrinfo(), freeaddrinfo() etc (all of which are

Circular dependency problem

I'm trying to build a C++ project involving around 20 branches, the majority of whose targets are shared library objects (DLLs). Two of the branches seem to have circular dependencies (in other words, each one relies on functions contained in the other one). If I was programming in Microsoft VC+

Re: Linker Search Directories

Thanks Brian, that looks as though it's worked. Just to check that I've understood this - here's a problem that I'll be facing in a little while I'm about to build another library called "liblo". This library uses various functions with names like getaddrinfo(), freeaddrinfo() etc (all of w

Linker Search Directories

I hope it's okay to start a new thread about this because the previous thread had veered off-topic. I'm trying to build a project (using make) that needs python. Python's link library is in /lib/python2.5/config/ but unfortunately, 'make' doesn't seem to be aware of this and fails with the messa

Re: [OT] Re: Can anyone help please, with syntax ?

- Original Message - From: "Jason Tishler" Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Can anyone help please, with syntax ? You need to get make to add the following: -L /usr/lib/python2.5/config Thanks Jason - presumably I'd need to do this either by passing a parameter to 'make' or by editing the ma

[OT] Re: Can anyone help please, with syntax ?

Sorry to keep asking dumb questions - but now that I've installed fftw3, I can get aubio past the stage where it was previously complaining. However, aubio's 'make' is now bombing out, saying:- cannot find -lpython2.5 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status AFAICT I do have pyhton2.5 but it's a DLL

[OT] Re: Can anyone help please, with syntax ?

- Original Message - From: "Brian Dessent" Subject: Re: Can anyone help please, with syntax ? /usr/lib and /lib are the same directory. Woo - this gets more fascinating as the days progress. I'm now installing

Re: Can anyone help please, with syntax ?

- Original Message - From: "Marco Atzeri" Subject: Re: Can anyone help please, with syntax ? why have you not installed : libfftw3-devel-3.1.2-2 libfftw3_3-3.1.2-2 ? it should be much simpler that rebuilding fftw3 from scratch. Oh, how embarrassing..! I've been using cygwin-ports f

Can anyone help please, with syntax ?

I'm trying to build a library called "aubio" which requires the fftw3 math package. I built and installed fftw3 yesterday. However, when I try to build aubio, the ./configure stage fails, saying that fftw3 can't be found. The config log says:- Package fftw3f was not found in the pkg-config sear

Re: __CYGWIN_USE_BIG_TYPES__

- Original Message - From: "Dave Korn" Subject: RE: __CYGWIN_USE_BIG_TYPES__ -IC:/cygwin/usr/include/mingw Do not attempt to include mingw headers if you are not building a mingw program! You've cracked it again Dave..! It was the mingw directory that was causing the problem. I o

Re: __CYGWIN_USE_BIG_TYPES__

- Original Message - From: "Dave Korn" Subject: RE: __CYGWIN_USE_BIG_TYPES__ ... you forgot to show us the compiler command-line you're using. Sorry, I realised almost as soon as I'd posted. Here's what gets sent to g++ (I've split all the elements onto different line just to improve

Re: __CYGWIN_USE_BIG_TYPES__

- Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" Subject: Re: __CYGWIN_USE_BIG_TYPES__ "gcc -dDI -E" is probably your friend to help you track down who is including what. Thanks Christopher. I'll try that too. BTW, am I right in thinking that Cygwin's gcc is still at revision 3.4.4

Re: __CYGWIN_USE_BIG_TYPES__

- Original Message - From: "Eric Blake" Subject: Re: __CYGWIN_USE_BIG_TYPES__ Please show us a reproducible test case (ie. self-contained C file with cruft removed that triggered the message, and not just the one-line That reads poorly. I meant: a self-contained C file that trigger

Re: __CYGWIN_USE_BIG_TYPES__

- Original Message - From: "Eric Blake" Subject: Re: __CYGWIN_USE_BIG_TYPES__ Please show us a reproducible test case (ie. self-contained C file with cruft removed that triggered the message, and not just the one-line snippet of the error message). If it is something that compiles on L

Re: __CYGWIN_USE_BIG_TYPES__

- Original Message - From: "Dave Korn" Subject: RE: __CYGWIN_USE_BIG_TYPES__ Nope. Don't define it any way at all, it's private. [...] #include Thanks Dave, That got rid of the _off64_t problem but by some route which I haven't yet worked out, '/usr/unclude/pthread.h' is now

__CYGWIN_USE_BIG_TYPES__

I'm having a few problems with '_off64_t' not being recognised as a valid type. For example, in expressions such as:- typedef _off64_t off_t; which appears in /usr/include/cygwin/types.h Is __CYGWIN_USE_BIG_TYPES__ only appropriate for 64-bit platforms? In other words, should I #define it

Re: [OT] RE: liblrdf

- Original Message - From: "Cliff Hones" Subject: Re: [OT] RE: liblrdf And to add to the fun, John's host has the wrong timezone set (GMT not BST) so his posts are listed by my mail client *after* the replies from Dave. Spooky...! :-) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/m

Re: liblrdf

- Original Message - From: "Dave Korn" Subject: RE: liblrdf John Emmas wrote on 08 October 2008 13:37: Dave, you must be psychic. I knew you were going to say that. LOL - sadly, my elation proved to be short-lived. What was actually in cygwin-ports was l i b r d

Re: liblrdf

- Original Message - From: "Dave Korn" Subject: RE: liblrdf Don't forget to give the ports repo a check as well. Dave, you must be psychic. That's exactly where I saw it. Unfortunately, I'm now having major problems with 'sed' but I'll flag them up on cygwin-ports. Thanks agai

Re: liblrdf

- Original Message - From: "Dave Korn" Subject: RE: liblrdf You should probably be able to figure this out for yourself using the package list and search facility at http://cygwin.com/packages/ Either the list will trigger your memory, or you can try searching for a few variants or

liblrdf

A couple of weeks ago when I first installed cygwin, I'm sure I saw (somewhere in the setup program) that the library 'lrdf' was available for installation. I can't remember the exact description - it might have been 'rdf' or 'librdf' maybe. Anyway suddenly, now that I need it, I can't seem to f

Re: Cygwin bash

- Original Message - From: "Mark J. Reed" Subject: Re: Cygwin bash As noted, Windows console supports right-click paste in QuickEdit mode. But I still miss shift-Insert. Oh - you and me, both - and especially within Linux. [CTRL+INSERT] followed by [SHIFT+INSERT] is s much more

Re: [OT] RE: Cygwin bash

Thanks guys. It's already a lot better than it was, only this morning!! John -- 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/

Re: Cygwin bash

- Original Message - From: "Greg Chicares" Subject: Re: Cygwin bash You can configure size and colors in the "Properties" dialog. Thanks for the tip, Greg. Just setting a bigger font has improved matters enormously..! Also, I discovered along the way that even the existing, DOS-lik

Cygwin bash

When I double click the 'Cygwin' icon on my Windows desktop, a DOS-like window opens which I'm led to believe is Cygwin's bash terminal. However, with every version of Linux that I've used, the bash terminal had menus allowing me to do certain things like (for example) copying & pasting text. Cyg

Re: libasound

- Original Message - From: "Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)" John Emmas wrote: Anyone know if 'libasound' has ever been ported for cygwin? (AFAIK, it's an ALSA sound library). If you know what the L in ALSA stands for, then you'll understand that it's not av

Re: A dumb question about static libs ?

- Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" No, because it wouldn't work. This has nothing to do with static vs. dynamic. While the format of a .a file may be similar that doesn't equate to object file interoperability. Cygwin's nm and ar commands could theoretically read archives

A dumb question about static libs ?

I'm sure this'll seem obvious to those of you who are more experienced with Cygwin than I am - but to me, it seems like a pretty reasonable question. I understand that Cygwin isn't an emulator and therefore it can't run a standard Linux executable. I also understand why a Linux shared object

libasound

Anyone know if 'libasound' has ever been ported for cygwin? (AFAIK, it's an ALSA sound library). I tried cygwin-ports (without success) and I also looked in some of the mirrors in my setup.exe program but I couldn't find it anywhere. A quick search on Google seems to suggest that other people ha

Re: libjack availability

- Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" You didn't download libjack from the cygwin.com domain. That should have been a pretty big hint. Prior to Dave's link I hadn't been able to download libjack from anywhere Christopher. That was whole problem. Yaakov's original link was

Re: libjack availability

Thanks Dave - I couldn't get onto the home page (in fact, I still can't access it) so I hadn't realised that cygwinports was unconnected with cygwin. I'll wait until the home page becomes available and try later. John -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

Re: libjack availability

- Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" Subject: Re: libjack availability And please don't send email here with cygwinports considerations. It uses a separate mailing list. Which is where, exactly? It doesn't seem to be mentioned here AFAICT http://cygwin.com/lists.html Jo

Re: libjack availability

Hi Yaakov, Thanks for adding libjack to your SourceForge archive, here:- http://cygwin-ports.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cygwin-ports/ports/trunk/media/ Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to access it. I tried running cygwin's setup.exe, selecting "User URL" and adding the URL but this resul

Re: [OT] polite response to polite response - Brian...

- Original Message - From: "Barry Smith at SourceLink" . As a programmer, my first assumption is that I messed up, not that the compiler is broken or Windoze is broken (like there has ever been a stable version of Windoze). Can't disagree with that - except to point out that there's neve

Re: setup.exe - removing an available download site.

- Original Message - From: "John Emmas" Subject: setup.exe - removing an available download site. If I accidentally add a URL to the available download sites (when using cygwin's setup.exe) is there a way to remove it from the list? AFAICT, deleting the file c:\cygwin

setup.exe - removing an available download site.

If I accidentally add a URL to the available download sites (when using cygwin's setup.exe) is there a way to remove it from the list? Thanks, John -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: h

Re: libjack availability

e lots of audio utilities have been ported and they often rely on jack, so I assumed someone must have ported it :-( Regards, John - Original Message - From: "Dave Korn" Sent: 22 September 2008 16:26 Subject: RE: libjack availability John Emmas wrote on 22 September

libjack availability

Are libjack and libjack-devel available for cygwin? I looked through a few branches in my setup.exe file but couldn't find them. Is there anywhere else I should try? John -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: g_assertions

"glibmm\"" So, probably not a problem with Cygwin. More likely a problem with Code::Blocks. I probably need to flag it up to them. Thanks again, John - Original Message - From: "Dave Korn" Sent: 22 September 2008 13:39 Subject: RE: g_assertions John Emmas

Re: g_assertions

Here's a simple example that fails to compile:- #include void my_func () { int x = 3; g_assert (x); } Can anyone reproduce this problem? Or am I missing something obvious? Thanks, John - Original Message - From: "John Emmas" Sent: 22 September 200

g_assertions

Hi - I hope this is an appropriate place to ask this question. I'm just starting to use Cygwin. Firstly, the Cygwin web site says that the current version is 1.5.25-15 but my install log says that it installed 2.573.2.3 so I'm a bit confused about that. Anyway, apart from that, the installation

Re: A newbie question about 3rd party libraries.

Thanks for the links Yaakov. I haven't had a chance to download anything yet but they seem to be just what I was looking for. John - Original Message - From: "Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)" Sent: 28 August 2008 17:22 Subject: Re: A newbie question about 3rd party libraries. -BEGIN PGP

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