Sv: Sv: g++ and c++17 filesystem

[<sten.kristian.ivarsson@gmail.com>]

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> >> As stated earlier, it seems like using mingw g++/libstdc++ (from the
> >> cygwin-package-manager) it seems like it works better, but then you
> >> can’t mix with other posix/cygwin mechanism (that uses cygstdc++)
> >> without breaking ODR (and probably some memory models etc as well) so
> >> maybe someone do have some insightful info about this ? How “special”
> >> is
> >> cygstdc++ (compared to mingw:s libstdc++) ? Could this be fixable in
> >> cygstdc++ that
> >> library (cygstdc++) ?


> > I might be totally wrong, so does anyone have any take on this ?
> 
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Tnx Brian

I think The Cygwin-community is doing a great job but with some caveats, such as this

We're in need of various posix-libraries and I guess they won't be available if using the mingw-g++/libstdc++ (I guess cygstdc++ is needed then due to some special memory models etc etc etc) ?

I can for sure try it out, but that would be quite cumbersome because the and I guess it'll be a whole lot of hazzle to make it working

I'd rather help out or having a dialog of how to fix std::filesystem, i.e. change the usage of the __CYGWIN__ macro in that implementation, but this seems to be a part of the "real" GCC-distribution o I guess I need to be involved in that open-source-community instead, but I guess it somehow is invoked from this project somehow so I guess some people here do have some real insights about this ?

The whole C/C++ community is striving for total cross-platform libraries (but I guess we have a few years left for that) and std::filesystem was supposed to take us all in that direction and I totally understand that std::filesystem-library in Cygwin do think it is on a posix-filesystem (though it's not) and I totally understand why the behaviour is as it is, but I don't agree that is a good thing, considering that the underlaying posix-implementation already today accepts Windows:ish-like-paths in some circumstances, I'd like the whole package to be even more agnostic because most applications don't have any wish to inspect the content of a path-object no more than the value of a socket-descriptor

Applications might wanna extract type, name, parent-folder, etc but do rarely care about what kind of separator it has (/ or \) and the style of the root directory etc and it would be very neat if the cygwin std::filesystem-library became more agnostic in these regards

Best regards,
Kristian


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