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Re: mingw alternatives


From: Bruno Haible
Subject: Re: mingw alternatives
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:45:24 +0200
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Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> We're at the point where every other function in mingw is being hooked.
> 
> Maybe it would be better to start fresh with ReactOS's msvcrt, add 
> everything that gnulib provides and more (for example the *at functions 
> could be added very easily), and link it statically with the application 
> instead of using gnulib...  kind of like the mingwex library but to the 
> n-th power...

Note that this would not solve the open_memstream issue, because the same
hardwired FILE struct is also used in AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, OSF/1, Solaris.

If you want to create another runtime platform for Win32, you can certainly
do so. But:
  - It would not replace the need for mingw. mingw is needed when people
    want to be able to link with system-provided or third-party DLLs.
    If the same process links to two different runtime libraries, each
    containing a C standard library, it will be a big mess.
  - What would be the advantage of your new platform compared to Cygwin?
    Why would people want to use a Cygwin remake instead of the real
    Cygwin?

Bruno




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