From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Return-Path: <libc-ports-return-3978-listarch-libc-ports=sources.redhat.com@sourceware.org>
Received: (qmail 5594 invoked by alias); 5 Apr 2013 22:32:15 -0000
Mailing-List: contact libc-ports-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
List-Id: <libc-ports.sourceware.org>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:libc-ports-subscribe@sourceware.org>
List-Post: <mailto:libc-ports@sourceware.org>
List-Help: <mailto:libc-ports-help@sourceware.org>, <http://sourceware.org/lists.html#faqs>
Sender: libc-ports-owner@sourceware.org
Received: (qmail 5580 invoked by uid 89); 5 Apr 2013 22:32:15 -0000
X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-9.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1
Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28)    by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Fri, 05 Apr 2013 22:32:12 +0000
Received: from int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.12])	by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r35MW6Yf023071	(version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK);	Fri, 5 Apr 2013 18:32:06 -0400
Received: from [10.3.113.143] (ovpn-113-143.phx2.redhat.com [10.3.113.143])	by int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id r35MW59x003427;	Fri, 5 Apr 2013 18:32:05 -0400
Message-ID: <515F50E4.6080103@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 22:32:00 -0000
From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130311 Thunderbird/17.0.4
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
CC: libc-ports@sourceware.org, Vishal Agrawal <vishal4556@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Has anyone progressed/tried to port glibc to non posix system (windows)
References: <CAF6ttfHcG5s6OUAiuDfXWg3kQr_9Yxo+BHbhOZa8E2SeEnY-uA@mail.gmail.com> <CAF6ttfGCzAgJVRYTL7nwacSm6fLfXhsSvuVm3G=aO3Y7dXdQTA@mail.gmail.com> <515EE355.9070801@redhat.com> <201304051609.10137.vapier@gentoo.org>
In-Reply-To: <201304051609.10137.vapier@gentoo.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-SW-Source: 2013-04/txt/msg00019.txt.bz2

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.

Cheers,
Carlos.