boehm-gc .comm problem

Tue Jun 5 18:25:00 GMT 2001

On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Robert Collins wrote:
> > Tom Tromey seemed to agree that Mingw would be a better approach,
> > so I'm going to go with this consensus advice and see what happens.
>> My advice was based on _your_ preferred target of mingw. I suspect
> cygwin is an easier target, as a port has been achieved, but not knowing
> the requirements of your project, all I could do is help streamline your
> path - you already had a goal of mingw, AFAICouldT.

Even with mingw you have a choice of I/O models: either the
open/read/write/close calls in MSVCRT, in which case you can use
natFileDescriptorPosix.cc almost as-is, or use the native win32 routines
in natFileDescriptorWin32.cc. The latter needs some work, in particular
for standard handles.
Also there is no java.lang.Process for win32. Cygwin should definitely be
easier in the short term, especially now that it is reentrant.
Jeff