[Mingw-w64-public] New-B

2013-01-14 Thread Arbol One
Hello there! I just downloaded and unpacked mingw-w64-v1.0.7. in my D: directory, what else do I have to do now? is there a tutorial explaining what has to be added to the path and what is the toolchain for 32bit or 64bit apps? TIA-

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] MSYS alternative as a process-managing shell

2013-01-14 Thread JonY
On 1/14/2013 22:49, Ruben Van Boxem wrote: > That is of course a difficult one. Either internal bookkeeping or a simple > (?) translation function *where need be* (the hardest part being the latter > of course). MSYS achieves this somehow, so I'd start there. > > MSYS is pretty bad at path trans

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] MSYS alternative as a process-managing shell

2013-01-14 Thread Ruben Van Boxem
2013/1/14 JonY > On 1/14/2013 20:59, Ruben Van Boxem wrote: > >> > >> But seriously, you will probably end up writing your own PE loader to > >> simulate fork(), since specs say new process must have exact memory > >> layout as the parent, not to mention Posix signaling pipelines to route > >> to

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] MSYS alternative as a process-managing shell

2013-01-14 Thread JonY
On 1/14/2013 20:59, Ruben Van Boxem wrote: >> >> But seriously, you will probably end up writing your own PE loader to >> simulate fork(), since specs say new process must have exact memory >> layout as the parent, not to mention Posix signaling pipelines to route >> to the correct process. fork()

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] MSYS alternative as a process-managing shell

2013-01-14 Thread Ruben Van Boxem
2013/1/14 Алексей Павлов > Hey! > Maybe fork new Cygwin to MSYS2 is the best solution? I am interesting in > it because MSYS is very old and porting new software for it is very > difficult. I can help you any way I can. I have Cygwin git repo on > https://github.com/Alexpux/Cygwin.git ерфе I sync

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] MSYS alternative as a process-managing shell

2013-01-14 Thread Ruben Van Boxem
2013/1/14 JonY > On 1/14/2013 17:29, Ruben Van Boxem wrote: > > Hey guys, > > > > I couldn't sleep last night and thought of this: MSYS is a fork of > Cygwin, > > which introduced a bunch of POSIX runtime stuff to be able to run all > them > > shell commands. > > > > What if someone were to write

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Patch for widl Makefile rule bug when builddir!=srcdir

2013-01-14 Thread Jacek Caban
Hi Ray, .idl.h: crt/_mingw.h - $(WIDL) -DBOOL=WINBOOL -I$(srcdir)/include -I$(srcdir)/direct-x/include -Icrt -I$(srcdir)/crt -h -o $(srcdir)/$@ $< + $(WIDL) -DBOOL=WINBOOL -I$(srcdir)/include -I$(srcdir)/direct-x/include -Icrt -I$(srcdir)/crt -h -o $@ $< The current code is indeed

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] MSYS alternative as a process-managing shell

2013-01-14 Thread JonY
On 1/14/2013 17:29, Ruben Van Boxem wrote: > Hey guys, > > I couldn't sleep last night and thought of this: MSYS is a fork of Cygwin, > which introduced a bunch of POSIX runtime stuff to be able to run all them > shell commands. > > What if someone were to write an sh interpreter that used specia

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] MSYS alternative as a process-managing shell

2013-01-14 Thread Алексей Павлов
Hey! Maybe fork new Cygwin to MSYS2 is the best solution? I am interesting in it because MSYS is very old and porting new software for it is very difficult. I can help you any way I can. I have Cygwin git repo on https://github.com/Alexpux/Cygwin.git ерфе I synchronizes once a week with Cygwin cvs

[Mingw-w64-public] MSYS alternative as a process-managing shell

2013-01-14 Thread Ruben Van Boxem
Hey guys, I couldn't sleep last night and thought of this: MSYS is a fork of Cygwin, which introduced a bunch of POSIX runtime stuff to be able to run all them shell commands. What if someone were to write an sh interpreter that used special tricks to manipulate directory names when it calls prog