Re: _stati64 patch (Was: [PATCH] Fix include path separator)

[Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>]

Hi Joshua,

On Tue, 2019-07-09 at 16:59 -0500, Joshua Watt wrote:
> > BTW. I don't know much about windows, and I assume it doesn't ship with
> > bash. But maybe you could take a peek at the bzip2-tests repository and
> > see if you could somehow make that work on Windows?
> > https://sourceware.org/git/bzip2-tests.git
> 
> Windows isn't really my preferred OS either; I'm tasked with maintaining 
> an embedded Linux cross compiling environment for Windows as part of my 
> day job, so I end up dealing with it more that I would perhaps like :)
> 
> Anyway, the good news is that you don't really need to make any changes 
> to the bzip2-tests repo; it works fine on Windows as is. As previously 
> stated, I compiled bzip2 using MinGW (http://www.mingw.org/). There is 
> also a related project called msys (http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS) that 
> will give you a traditional bash shell (as well as most other standard 
> utilities) in Windows. The run-tests.sh script works just fine there and 
> all the tests pass, using a build of bzip2 from b07b105 ("Accept as many 
> selectors as the file format allows.").

That is really awesome. Thanks so much for testing that out.
Can a cross build bzip2 using MinGw (and msys) be run under Wine?
That might give us a build CI pipeline for testing bzip2 using the
buildbot. It might not be identical to running under actual Windows.
But it might be scripted/automated.

Thanks,

Mark