RE: Stupid stupid question :/

RE: Stupid stupid question :/

[Colin Peters]

Chris Wall[SMTP:vergil@midusa.net] wrote:
>I'm having problems compiling Win95 gui apps with 17.1. In the faq they
>mention using the -ssubsystem windows option to gcc OR ld, but when I do
>so I get an "invalid option" and "no such file or directory: windows"
>error. There was another part of the mailing list archives/faq (don't
>remember which) that mentioned using a -mwindows switch - which didn't
>work for me either.
>
>The compiler goes on its merry way, and comes to a few functions that
>it's totally confused by, but I am hoping that this is because of the
>lib/target problem I'm having - the program isn't my source, it's a
>cheezy example program with (unfortunately) a MSVC mak file. 

I think (confirmations anyone?) that the "-ssubsystem windows" bit in
the readme is a typo. It should be "--subsystem windows". An easy way
to do this (and not have to fool around too much) is to use gcc to
do your link step with a command line like this:

  gcc -o myexe.exe myexe.o foo.o bar.o -luser32 -Wl,--subsystem,windows

The last bit is the important part.

NOTE: You will, I think, get a "Cannot find entry point _WinMainCRTStartup"
warning or something similar. This should be harmless.

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incomplete ln implementation?

[Bernd Prager]

Sorry, I'm a newby for UNIX/win32 tools 
and still trying what happens here.

I would like to install all devtools and 
because of several disks (and never enaugh
diskspace) I prefer to work with symbolic
links. Unfortunately I get some problems with
directory links. I can install them but they
work only with a few command:

-snip------------------------------------------------

bernd:~/tst# ln -s /tmp/kif
bernd:~/tst# ls -l
total 1
lrw-r--r--   1 bernd    everyone       19 Mar 20 17:03 kif -> /tmp/kif/
bernd:~/tst# ls kif
KIFClass.h         KIFMethods.C       README             kif-meta.kif
KIFGrammar.y       KIFParse.C         TstParser.C        kif-relations.kif
KIFLex.l           Makefile           kif-lists.kif      kif-sets.kif
bernd:~/tst# cd kif
BASH.EXE: kif: Not owner
bernd:~/tst# cat kif/Makefile
cat: kif/Makefile: No such file or directory
bernd:~/tst#

-snip------------------------------------------------

Did I a mistake or is this still an uncomplete
porting?

Thanks for hints.
Bernd
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Re: incomplete ln implementation?

[Fergus Henderson]

Bernd Prager, you wrote:
> 
> I would like to install all devtools and 
> because of several disks (and never enaugh
> diskspace) I prefer to work with symbolic
> links. Unfortunately I get some problems with
> directory links.

Yes, symbolic links to directories don't work yet.

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