Re: ATTN: g++ maintainer: Using string instances to pass arguments to dlls

2005-10-05 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, James R. Phillips wrote: > Does fixing this bug require upstream intervention, or can you just develop a > patch, and submit it to upstream? If it is only the std::string implementation that uses the described optimization the problem can be worked around by just rebuilding li

Re: Cygwin xfig eps problem

2005-10-05 Thread Franz Haeuslschmid
Mike Shi writes: > Franz Haeuslschmid gmx.at> writes: >> >> Mike, >> >> I think I've found the reason for XFig's strange behavior. > > Franz - Well, you got further with the source than I did! It was a great opportunity (and fun) to install Eclipse' CDT and using Cygwin's tools to build and de

Re: ATTN: g++ maintainer: Using string instances to pass arguments to dlls

2005-10-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
James R. Phillips wrote: Does fixing this bug require upstream intervention, or can you just develop a patch, and submit it to upstream? A patch would be nice! Anecdotal evidence [1] exists that this issue may be what prevents compiling a working version of octave 2.1.71 with gcc 3.4.4. Th

Re: ATTN: g++ maintainer: Using string instances to pass arguments to dlls

2005-10-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Pavel Tsekov wrote: On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, James R. Phillips wrote: Does fixing this bug require upstream intervention, or can you just develop a patch, and submit it to upstream? If it is only the std::string implementation that uses the described optimization the problem can be worked aroun

[Patch] EPS import for XFig

2005-10-05 Thread Franz Haeuslschmid
Hello, there is a problem with XFig as soon as more than one EPS should be imported as figure object. It seems that only those users are affected, that use a temporary directory on a NTFS partition. The problem has been addressed earlier: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin.xfree/14757>

RE: installer bugs? packages tree

2005-10-05 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
on [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi, > > i installed cygwin for the first time yesterday. when i got to the > screen where i choose which packages, i went straight to the root > item in the tree, and set it to "install". the tree seemed to update > all its branches to "install" as well, so i thoug

Re: Compiling Apache2 under Cygwin with .so support

2005-10-05 Thread Tod
Max Bowsher wrote: Please keep replies on the mailing list. I'm taking this conversation back on-list. Sorry, I normally do. Tod wrote: Max Bowsher wrote: Tod wrote: I'm trying to compile Apache 2.0.54 under Cygwin. I do this because I like to keep the same configuration and file sy

Re: ATTN: g++ maintainer: Using string instances to pass arguments to dlls

2005-10-05 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Pavel Tsekov wrote: > > > I'll try to rebuild libstdc++ now with _GLIBCXX_FULLY_DYNAMIC_STRING > > defined and will report back if there is interest. I would like to help > > to get this issue resolved. > > Yes, much appreciated. Please CC me when you

Re: Cygwin xfig eps problem

2005-10-05 Thread Mike Shi
Franz Haeuslschmid gmx.at> writes: > It may be that other XFig users are running Cygwin on a Windows > 98 derivative. Or use a temporary directory on a FAT partition. > But this is highly speculative right now. Got a chance to try it - it fails also with a FAT /tmp filesystem. > Good luck! > F

Building libstdc++.dll the easy way

2005-10-05 Thread Danny Smith
Building libstdc++.dll may be a "hard problem" for a mathematician or for libtool, but this is how an ordinary person coud do it. dlltool --output-def libstdc++.def --export-all libstdc++.a gcc -shared -olibstdc++.dll -Wl,--out-implib,libstdc++.dll.a \ libstdc++.def libstdc++.a The main

Building libstdc++.dll the easy way

2005-10-05 Thread John W. Eaton
On 6-Oct-2005, Danny Smith wrote: | Building libstdc++.dll may be a "hard problem" for a mathematician or | for libtool, but this is how an ordinary person coud do it. | | dlltool --output-def libstdc++.def --export-all libstdc++.a | gcc -shared -olibstdc++.dll -Wl,--out-implib,libstdc++.dll

[ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin-doc-1.4-3 released

2005-10-05 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
An updated version of cygwin-doc is now available. It includes Cygwin and newlib documentation in formats such as man, texinfo, HTML, and PDF. This is a normal incremental release to sync with the latest CVS, with a few minor changes: --the FAQ is now in the same style as the User's Guide --the in

Re: Building libstdc++.dll the easy way

2005-10-05 Thread Danny Smith
- Original Message - From: "John W. Eaton" Sent: Thursday, 6 October 2005 09:13 > On 6-Oct-2005, Danny Smith wrote: > > | Building libstdc++.dll may be a "hard problem" for a mathematician or > | for libtool, but this is how an ordinary person coud do it. > | > | dlltool --output-de

Where can I download gcc3.2 packages for Cygwin?

2005-10-05 Thread lu jun
Hi, I am a newbie for Cygwin. I need to compile something that can only be compiled under gcc3.2. I know the current gcc versions for Cygwin are 3.3.3 and 3.3.4. Is there anyway to get the old packages (gcc3.2)? Thanks. Jun __ Yahoo! Mail - PC M

Re: ATTN: g++ maintainer: Using string instances to pass arguments to dlls

2005-10-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Pavel Tsekov wrote: On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Pavel Tsekov wrote: I'll try to rebuild libstdc++ now with _GLIBCXX_FULLY_DYNAMIC_STRING defined and will report back if there is interest. I would like to help to get this issue resolved. Yes, much appreciated. Please CC me

Re: Where can I download gcc3.2 packages for Cygwin?

2005-10-05 Thread Larry Hall
At 05:35 PM 10/5/2005, you wrote: >Hi, > >I am a newbie for Cygwin. I need to compile something >that can only be compiled under gcc3.2. I know the >current gcc versions for Cygwin are 3.3.3 and 3.3.4. >Is there anyway to get the old packages (gcc3.2)? >Thanks. The typical two responses to this

Using cygwin with W2K in VMWare on Debian 2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp?

2005-10-05 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi, I am using a Debian 2.6.8-11-amd64-k8-smp hosted VMWare 5.0 with a W2K and Cygwin (latest version, all packages installed) as a guest OS. I want to compile MICO in the W2K virtual machine, using Cygwin. If I run configure it stops after checking if the C compiler works with the following er