From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: libc-ports@sourceware.org
Cc: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com>,
Vishal Agrawal <vishal4556@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Has anyone progressed/tried to port glibc to non posix system (windows)
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 23:01:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201304051901.39017.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <515F50E4.6080103@redhat.com>
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On Friday 05 April 2013 18:32:04 Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 04/05/2013 04:09 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Friday 05 April 2013 10:44:37 Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> >> Why not consider using cygwin?
> >
> > at least recommend mingw instead of cygwin :)
>
> You're right, mingw + msys might be enough for the
> users requirements.
>
> You must keep in mind that mingw's design is to
> provide an open source build environment for windows
> development and not a portability layer. Though the
> mingwex runtime has some portability functions to
> aid in the transition, it still just using the Windows
> C runtime.
that's why you use gnulib w/mingw :)
-mike
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2013-04-05 13:30 ` Vishal Agrawal
2013-04-05 14:44 ` Carlos O'Donell
2013-04-05 20:08 ` Mike Frysinger
2013-04-05 22:32 ` Carlos O'Donell
2013-04-05 23:01 ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
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