Possible wine bug concerning the case of the DbgHelp.h header filename
I successfully built the ultra-fast ninja build tool on Wine using the MinGW g++ compiler. To achieve that success I had to deal with a small number of issues including one wine/ninja header name inconsistency which is that DbgHelp.h (#included by the ninja code) has a lower-case name (dbghelp.h) on wine, and the MinGW suite of compilers is sensitive to the case of header file names. I worked around this issue with the following symlink /home/wine/wine_build/install-git/include/wine/windows/DbgHelp.h -> dbghelp.h where /home/wine/wine_build/install-git is my install prefix for my wine-git build. Is Wine following the correct Windows naming convention for this header? For what it is worth, I did a google search for <windows dbghelp.h> and most of the hits were for DbgHelp.h rather than dbghelp.h so I can understand why the ninja developers used #include<DbgHelp.h> rather than the lower-case version of that name. If the wine developers here decide this is definitely a wine issue, I am willing to write up the bug report on your bugtracker so this issue doesn't get lost. A search there for <header case filename> did not turn up anything relevant. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________
On 12 June 2013 01:49, Alan W. Irwin <irwin(a)beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote:
I successfully built the ultra-fast ninja build tool on Wine using the MinGW g++ compiler. To achieve that success I had to deal with a small number of issues including one wine/ninja header name inconsistency which is that DbgHelp.h (#included by the ninja code) has a lower-case name (dbghelp.h) on wine, and the MinGW suite of compilers is sensitive to the case of header file names. I worked around this issue with the following symlink
/home/wine/wine_build/install-git/include/wine/windows/DbgHelp.h -> dbghelp.h
where /home/wine/wine_build/install-git is my install prefix for my wine-git build.
Is Wine following the correct Windows naming convention for this header?
There's no such thing, at least wrt. case; Windows is case insensitive. Wine just uses lower case, and for the most part that's also the C / Unix convention, although there are certainly exceptions. Typically you'd just change your source (Ninja in this case) to consistently use lower case, instead of creating symlinks.
On Wednesday 12 June 2013 02:49:26 am Alan W. Irwin wrote:
I successfully built the ultra-fast ninja build tool on Wine using the MinGW g++ compiler. To achieve that success I had to deal with a small number of issues including one wine/ninja header name inconsistency which is that DbgHelp.h (#included by the ninja code) has a lower-case name (dbghelp.h) on wine, and the MinGW suite of compilers is sensitive to the case of header file names. I worked around this issue with the following symlink
/home/wine/wine_build/install-git/include/wine/windows/DbgHelp.h -> dbghelp.h
where /home/wine/wine_build/install-git is my install prefix for my wine-git build.
Is Wine following the correct Windows naming convention for this header?
For what it is worth, I did a google search for <windows dbghelp.h> and most of the hits were for DbgHelp.h rather than dbghelp.h so I can understand why the ninja developers used
#include<DbgHelp.h>
rather than the lower-case version of that name.
If the wine developers here decide this is definitely a wine issue, I am willing to write up the bug report on your bugtracker so this issue doesn't get lost. A search there for <header case filename> did not turn up anything relevant.
Alan
Hi! The Platform SDK creates DbgHelp.h however it shouldn't matter for Windows programs as they are case insensitive. The problem here is that MinGW somehow operates case sensitive so raise a bug for that. Paul
-----Original Message----- From: wine-devel-bounces(a)winehq.org [mailto:wine-devel- bounces(a)winehq.org] On Behalf Of Paul Chitescu Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 2:37 AM To: wine-devel(a)winehq.org Subject: Re: Possible wine bug concerning the case of the DbgHelp.h header filename On Wednesday 12 June 2013 02:49:26 am Alan W. Irwin wrote:
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For what it is worth, I did a google search for <windows dbghelp.h> and most of the hits were for DbgHelp.h rather than dbghelp.h so I can understand why the ninja developers used
#include<DbgHelp.h>
rather than the lower-case version of that name.
If the wine developers here decide this is definitely a wine issue, I am willing to write up the bug report on your bugtracker so this issue doesn't get lost. A search there for <header case filename> did not turn up anything relevant.
Hi!
The Platform SDK creates DbgHelp.h however it shouldn't matter for Windows programs as they are case insensitive.
It's worth mentioning that the case insensitivity of Win32 is configurable (see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929110) , and that NTFS itself is technically case-sensitive (see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/100625).
The problem here is that MinGW somehow operates case sensitive so raise a bug for that.
See http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1548.pdf p. 163, ยง6.10.2. Whether or not that's a bug is purely a subjective matter. That being the case, I, like you, would prefer that MinGW gcc considered DbgHelp.h to match dbghelp.h here. I vaguely recall something to the effect that gcc determines whether the underlying system has inode stability and, only if the inode stability is lacking, will look for headers case-insensitively... I do happen to know from experience that as of a few days ago, a cross-compiling gcc trunk build with a linux host and a *-w64-mingw64 target will treat headers case-insensitively. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the difference is detected by autotools at build time, and that, therefore, two native mingw->mingw gcc compilers might behave differently, if one was built using a *-linux-* -> *-mingw* cross-compiler whereas the other was built on msys using a native mingw->mingw bootstrap... if that's right, it does kind of seem like a bug (or, at best, an unfortunate feature). -gmt
On 2013-06-12 12:37+0300 Paul Chitescu wrote:
Hi!
The Platform SDK creates DbgHelp.h however it shouldn't matter for Windows programs as they are case insensitive.
The problem here is that MinGW somehow operates case sensitive so raise a bug for that.
You are right. So I put together a simple example demonstrating this MinGW "issue" and it worked fine indicating that MinGW has no such bug and can deal with these case issues with no problem. There must have been some other issue with my complicated example, and my apologies to you and Henri for the noise I generated about this "issue", but also my thanks to you guys for clarifying the issue. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________
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