Re: revised patch for glib compilation on cygwin with POSIX runtime

[Stephen Witkop <switk yahoo com>]

On 09 Feb 2001 11:47:32 +0100, Stefan Ondrejicka wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> 
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> 
> > About the g_win32_opendir/readdir etc functions: Any opinions whether
> > they belong in GLib at all? There are already dirent emulation
> > functions in libmingw32, which is linked in by default by the mingw
> > gcc. Of course, this doesn't help those who use MSVC. My opinion is
> > that these functions should be removed from glib, and instead the
> > mingw ones moved into a library of their own, that can then be used
> > also by MSVC.
> 
> I think it can remain in glib and be used only when compiling with MSVC.
> And for mingw compilation can be used the routines from libmingw.
> 

I think that it is important to maintain compatibility between the
libraries built with mingw and the ones built with MSVC. You don't want
users to need to have different sets of gtk+ libraries depending on what
compiler a developer was using.

        Stephen