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Re: Good news for cygwin ? Re: [smartmontools-devel]Windows port
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 09:44:20PM -0300, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote:
>On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 08:09:54PM -0300, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote:
>>>smartmontools now has support for Cygwin in CVS. There's a full
>>>package I made for 1.5.7 (just missed a postinstall script for
>>>/etc/smartd.conf - will be in 5.30) that can be installed
>>>through setup.exe.
>>>
>>>And a smartctl binary compiled with -mno-cygwin.
>>
>>...which would make it not particularly good news for cygwin...
>
>Correct, but I consider it good news if you have Cygwin, don't
>have MinGW, can't afford MSVC, and also want to make a native
>Windows binary.
"Don't have MinGW" doesn't make much sense. If you are careful you
don't need anything specific to MinGW to run binaries compiled with it.
>>-mno-cygwin means "no cygwin" which means that cygwin is not involved
>>in this port at all. You used cygwin's compiler to build it but you
>>cut cygwin out of the equation by specifying -mno-cygwin, making it
>>essentially a native windows port like you'd get if you used MSVC.
>
>Yes, but that was only to provide a smartctl binary for non Cygwin
>users. smartd hasn't yet been ported by Christian because -mno-cygwin
>and MSVC lack at least syslog.h, but it works with Cygwin.
So you're talking about mixing binaries compiled with and without
cygwin. Hmm.
>May I ask why /bin/mail isn't in Cygwin ? Nobody volunteered ?
>http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-07/msg00460.html doesn't
>help.
Basically it's because we thought you might need it and we're all
really mean so we're purposely not including it.
cgf
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