GNU MP port to Windows 32 bit

GNU MP port to Windows 32 bit

[Paul Andrew]

Hi,

Do you know of anyone who has ported the GNU Multi Precision library to
Win32?

I am pursuing compiling it with Microsoft Visual C++ and Cygnus Win32
GCC.  Haven't decided yet which will be the "better" alternative.

The goal is a 32bit DLL containing the GNU MP library.

Best Regards,
Paul
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Trivial question (maybe): how to use swedish keyboard with bash

[Erik Nyquist]

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I thought it would nice to have a real shell instead of command.com
(I am running Windows-95), so I tried bash. The only problem with
that is my swedish keyboard. I want to be able to use the AltGr-key
to get characters like $£\|. I have tried to find an appropriate
termcap-entry and appropriate TERM-setting, but that does not seem to
help. I start bash in a command-window.

Is there anyone that knows more about this? Is it
possible to use my swedish keyboard with bash? 

Erik

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Re: Trivial question (maybe): how to use swedish keyboard with bash

[Alex]

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On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, Erik Nyquist wrote:

> I thought it would nice to have a real shell instead of command.com
> (I am running Windows-95), so I tried bash. The only problem with
> that is my swedish keyboard. I want to be able to use the AltGr-key
> to get characters like $£\|. I have tried to find an appropriate
> termcap-entry and appropriate TERM-setting, but that does not seem to
> help. I start bash in a command-window.
> 
> Is there anyone that knows more about this? Is it
> possible to use my swedish keyboard with bash? 

You need to download an updated cygwin.dll from www.lexa.ru/sos, YMMV.

- alex

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Re: Trivial question (maybe): how to use swedish keyboard with bash

[Sven Brueggemann]

TW> I then restarted the computer and found that it was possible to
TW> use the shift key  Alt Gr  to type  @${[]}\|  being in bash.
TW> BUT IT WAS STILL NOT POSSIBLE TO TYPE "`", i.e. backward apo-
TW> strophe and "~", i.e. tilde.

Normally you don't need the backward apostropy in bash - simply say  
$(command) instead of `command`.

WIN95 does not seem to handle the dead keys (characters show up after  
typing another key) right. On German keyboards, ~ works fine, but in your  
language it may be a dead key.

What is really annoying is that the non-dead layout-specific keys do not  
work with latest coolview, e.g. the umlauts on German keyboards.

If you really need the keys that are dead in your layout, there is a  
workaround: In Control Panel / Keyboard you can load the English/USA  
language and layout and switch the layouts via hotkey as needed. English/ 
USA layout has another advantage: VI(M) commands are now quite logical :-)

BTW: How do I type national characters such as German umlauts or French  
accented characters on US-keyboards?

regards
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Trivial question (maybe): how to use swedish keyboard with bash

[Tage Westlund]

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Erik Nyquist wrote:
> 
> I thought it would be nice to have a real shell instead of command.com
> (I am running Windows-95), so I tried bash. The only problem with
> that is my swedish keyboard. I want to be able to use the AltGr-key
> to get characters like $£\|. 

To Erik!
I think this problem is general for most non english speaking countries.
It is now long ago that gnuwin32-b18 was launched. Immediately your
problem was reported in several messages to this list. Soon a patch
was offered by Sergey Okapkin. 
Geoffrey Noer has promised not to forget to include this patch in the
soon coming gnuwin32-b19. Please note the remaining shortcomings 
mentioned below!
I got rid of the problem (most of it) doing the following:
From  
ftp://niteroi.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/win32/X11R6.3/X11R6.3/b18-patch
I imported the two files  cygwin.dll  and  libcygwin.a

To two locations I copied  cygwin.dll  instead of the old files:
/gnuwin32/b18/H-i386-cygwin32/bin/cygwin.dll
/gnuwin32/b18/H-i386-cygwin32/i-386-cygwin32/lib/cygwin.dll

To one location I copied  libcygwin.a  instead of the old file:
/gnuwin32/b18/H-i386-cygwin32/i-386-cygwin32/lib/libcygwin.a

I then restarted the computer and found that it was possible to
use the shift key  Alt Gr  to type  @${[]}\|  being in bash.
BUT IT WAS STILL NOT POSSIBLE TO TYPE "`", i.e. backward apo-
strophe and "~", i.e. tilde. 
If one has to type those characters, type a script.txt instead
and execute  bash$ bash script.txt  as a "batch file".

Best Regards!

Tage

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