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Re: Compiling a windows.exe against cygwin1.dll ?
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Wim Van Oudenhove wrote:
> Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha <at> cs.nyu.edu> writes:
>
> > > So I've written a program that translates crontab compatible files to
> > > schedules for the windows scheduler. We've used cron, but that relies on
> > > the availability of the cygwin stack, which in turn relies on the
> > > availability of the central repository on the network.
> >
> > Huh? How's that?
> >
> > Did you try running cron locally on each machine (off a local install,
> > that is)?
>
> Well, we're stuck with some 5 machines all designed to do the exact same
> thing. When we need to upgrade something, we don't want to be bothered
> with having to upgrade all 5 machines separately. So we have mapped all
> the /etc, /bin, /var etc to a shared drive which we get trough samba
> from our unix server. The unix server is pretty stable, the network
> isn't always stable. We used to have local installs but my colleage
> decided to remove those to make matters easier to stay up to date.
An alternative way would have been to have a cron job run setup in
unattended mode (yes, it does exist) to upgrade from your local network
mirror and restart the cron service afterwards.
> > You might try the MinGW option (give a -mno-cygwin argument to g++). If
> > you have problems or questions, see the MinGW.org website.
> > Igor
>
> After some lengthy discussions with my colleage and some further
> searching on the web, I had discovered that invoking 'cygpath -w' does
> exactly what I want. Furthermore, we could use the presence of a 'TERM'
> environment variable as a trigger that we are running under cygwin. So
> when cygwin is detected and we cannot find a file using the first
> parameter, I spawn a cygpath process with that parameter and try again
> with the output from that. This seems to solve the problem I had. I'm
> sure there were neater ways to do it but I was lacking time and
> knowledge to come up with something else. Took me some three hours to
> implement that.
Nope, that seems like the right way to go for what you had in mind.
That's exactly what cygpath is for.
> I tried to compile it under gcc first, but as soon as CString showed up
> as unknown, I gave up.
Just FYI: <http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/21_strings/howto.html>
should help with the CString issue -- it was the first match in a Google
search for "gcc cstring", BTW.
> So thanks for your attempts to help all, next time we need tooling I
> might try to use gcc first.
Yep, and help free software in the process... :-)
Igor
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