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Re: cygwin changes needed for latest mingw64 headers
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 15:06:47 -0500
- Subject: Re: cygwin changes needed for latest mingw64 headers
- References: <20121111185844.GA9759@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20121112104031.GM7431@calimero.vinschen.de> <20121112152025.GA28930@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20121112160418.GN7431@calimero.vinschen.de> <20121112191552.GB14847@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>
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On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 02:15:52PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>[moving cygwin-specific newlib discussion here]
>On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 05:04:18PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>On Nov 12 10:20, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>*I've had to make a number of changes to Cygwin to get it to build with
>>>the latest released version of the mingw64 headers.
>>
>>What changes? I'm using the
>>cygwin-w32api-headers-2.0.999-1.trunk.20121016 header package on
>>Fedora, and I can build and run Cygwin fine after the change from
>>yesterday. Do the latest headers from the distro differ?
>
>I initially was using the x86_64 headers from:
>
>mingw64-x86_64-headers-3.0b_svn5373-1.tar.bz2
>
>extracted on Linux.
>
>I had to make a few changes to get that working, which was surprising.
I've posted a patch to cygwin-patches which shows the changes I made
to get things working.
cgf