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Hi Fabian, |
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Am Montag, den 18.01.2021, 09:48 +0100 schrieb Fabian Groffen: |
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> On 18-01-2021 06:04:45 +0100, Martin Oberzalek wrote: |
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> > > So, the inevitable question: who needs x64-cygwin/x86-winnt, |
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> Ok, I thought *-winnt targets were native Windows code, apparently WSL |
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> is too? (I'm just learning here, I guess.) |
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You are right, *-winnt is windows native and might be important when |
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compiling on WSL via a compiler wrapper like parity/or other helper tool with eg: visual studio |
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> > But now we are using actual cygwin versions and our fork of gentoo. Currently this is only working |
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> > with the developer release of the cygwin.dll. What I can do is: testing the gentoo prefix stack with |
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> > this upcomming new cygwin release (when its released) and give some feedback. If I can get it working I would update |
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> > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Prefix/Cygwin |
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> I'm trying to understand what this means. I'm sure/certain the current |
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> tree doesn't work for Cygwin. This means I anticipate you'll have to |
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> patch/fix a lot of packages for it. Would it be more useful to use an |
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> overlay for Cygwin instead? |
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I agree, maybe this would be a good solution. |
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Greetings, Martin |