Re: mingw32
| From: | Sascha Schumann | Date: | Wed, 03 Dec 2003 16:45:00 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: mingw32 | ||
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On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Wez Furlong wrote:
> When I tried to enable win32 specific extensions (such as COM)
> under cygwin, I found that a lot of the win32 api headers were
> missing, so the build failed.
Cygwin is a Unix portability layer, not a win32. :)
mingw's header set should be fairly complete.
http://www.mingw.org/mingwfaq.shtml#faq-w32api
> I don't plan to look at mingw32 myself, and I don't want to
> deal with patches for it until I've completed the features
> I have planned for the build system; once done, adding mingw
> support should be reasonably simple (just change the object
> and library suffixes and compiler flags...).
Will there be an abstraction similar to our current m4
infrastructure? (I have not looked at the .js yet)
- Sascha