RE: [ros-kernel] Status of building Wine under Cygwin/Mingw

[Robert Collins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Edwards [mailto:[e-mail]] 
> Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 2:35 PM
> - run ./configure --host=mingw32 --target=mingw32
>
> --build=mingw32 CFLAGS="-D_MINGW_ -D_WINDOWS -DWINE_NOWINSOCK"

You should probably add
CC="gcc -mno-cygwin" CXX="gcc -mno-cygwin" to the configure line if you
don't have a mingw cross compiler installed.
> - add -liberty to the makefile for wrc and wmc. This is
>
> needed because of getopt and optarg

Cygwin has a BSD licenced getopt.c that doesn't need libiberty to link,
only mingw (AFAIK). Anyway worth investigating?

Rob

[ros-kernel] Status of building Wine under Cygwin/Mingw

[Francois Gouget]

On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Robert Collins wrote:
[...]
> > - add -liberty to the makefile for wrc and wmc. This is
> >
> > needed because of getopt and optarg
>
> Cygwin has a BSD licenced getopt.c that doesn't need libiberty to link,
> only mingw (AFAIK). Anyway worth investigating?

I usually regard getopt functions as higly unportable and always try
to avoid them. I did not check how they are used in wrc&co, but it
should not be very difficult to do entirely without them. I believe that
would be the best solution.

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[ros-kernel] Status of building Wine under Cygwin/Mingw

[Andreas Mohr]

On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 01:15:17PM -0700, Francois Gouget wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Robert Collins wrote:
> [...]
> > > - add -liberty to the makefile for wrc and wmc. This is
> > >
> > > needed because of getopt and optarg
> >
> > Cygwin has a BSD licenced getopt.c that doesn't need libiberty to link,
> > only mingw (AFAIK). Anyway worth investigating?
>
> I usually regard getopt functions as higly unportable and always try
> to avoid them. I did not check how they are used in wrc&co, but it
> should not be very difficult to do entirely without them. I believe that
> would be the best solution.

Yep, probably, given getopt()s slightly dainbramaged way of handling commands
with or without spacing.
It's only sooo often a major annoyance !
(witness e.g. the current wineinstall "su" mess)

But OTOH command line handling/spacing issues are a difficult thing,
so maybe it's not even getopt that's to blame, because it's difficult
per se.