[sane-devel] Problems porting to cygwin

2002-06-06 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
forgot to precise that below is only for symbolic links :) > No problem. Links don't exist in Windows. > Why ? Because M$ wants to make dos/console mode > disappear. > > There are only shortcuts, stored as name.lnk, that > contain : > - an icon (or path to the icon) > - a path to the target > -

[sane-devel] Problems porting to cygwin

2002-06-06 Thread Matthew Duggan
rsday, 6 June 2002 9:09 AM Subject: Re: [sane-devel] Problems porting to cygwin > > Sylvain, > > > > could you explain this a little further for me > > please? > > > > Jim > > > No problem. Links don't exist in Windows. > Why ? Because M$ wants t

[sane-devel] Problems porting to cygwin

2002-06-06 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
> Sylvain, > > could you explain this a little further for me > please? > > Jim > No problem. Links don't exist in Windows. Why ? Because M$ wants to make dos/console mode disappear. There are only shortcuts, stored as name.lnk, that contain : - an icon (or path to the icon) - a path to t

[sane-devel] Problems porting to cygwin

2002-06-05 Thread Jim.George
On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, [iso-8859-1] Sylvain Petreolle wrote: > > Have a look at ../tools/libtool-get-dll-ext, maybe > > you can add a check > > for Windows and/or fix the detection. I don't know > > if those links are > > necessary or work at all on Windows. If I remember > > correctly, they > > don'

[sane-devel] Problems porting to cygwin

2002-06-05 Thread Jim.George
On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 08:44:10PM +0100, Jim.George wrote: > > This is my first attempt at porting sane to cygwin. > > Good luck! I guess the main work will be to write low-level functions > for SCSI, parport and USB access. > Thanks

[sane-devel] Problems porting to cygwin

2002-06-05 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
> Have a look at ../tools/libtool-get-dll-ext, maybe > you can add a check > for Windows and/or fix the detection. I don't know > if those links are > necessary or work at all on Windows. If I remember > correctly, they > don't even have a real ln command. In Cygwin, ln & links are emulated with th

[sane-devel] Problems porting to cygwin

2002-06-05 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 08:44:10PM +0100, Jim.George wrote: > This is my first attempt at porting sane to cygwin. Good luck! I guess the main work will be to write low-level functions for SCSI, parport and USB access. > So far everything has been going smoothely, until I get to m

[sane-devel] Problems porting to cygwin

2002-06-04 Thread Jim.George
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