Re: [xml] CYGWIN compile problems

["Robert Collins" <robert collins itdomain com au>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Veillard" <veillard redhat com>

> On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 09:25:30AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> > The patch to make it work successfully is available in the cygwin
> > package -src tarball.
> >
> > I am submitting all the *clean* patches to Daniel for inclusion, but
> > until an updated libtool with auto-import and gcc -shared
functionality
> > is released (Gary is busy right now :}) I very much doubt Daniel
would
> > accept such patches.
>
>   Well, let's face it, I don't have a Windows box, no Cygwin nor MSC
> compilers to test. So Igor and Robert have to agree to exchange a
couple
> of mail and if possible end up with a single patch w.r.t CVS which
will
> work on both setups. If the full toolchain for cygwin is not really
ready
> for building shared libs, then it might be safer to stay within the
> boundaries of what most users have installed. I would really like to
see
> a single patch which will work for both compiler, with and without
shared
> lib suport. If this can be done then I will be perfectly happy to take
the > patch. It's not terribly urgent, both MSC and Cygwin prepackaged
version
> have their own channel for distribution, simply ship when it's unified
> and ready.
>
>   Makes sense ?

Works for me :} Igor, if you don't remove __CYGWIN__ tests, I won't add
MSVC tests (grin).

Seriously though, the full toolchain for cygwin has done .dll's for
_years_. Whats been missing is ease of use for libtool. (See the goat
book for the original .dll support info for libtool). I contributed the
work Gary is including into the next libtool, my FSF assignment went
through a week or so ago (International mail, gotta love it).

Keeping MSVC and CYGWIN from interacting is simple:

Every #ifdef WIN32 becomes either:
#if defined(WIN32) && !defined (__CYGWIN__)
or
#if defined(WIN32) || defined (__CYGWIN__)
as appropriate.

99% of the time the first one will be appropriate.

Cygwin doesn't defined _MSC_VER, so tests for that will not interact
with Cygwin.

Rob