[PD-dev] compile pd with cygwin (almost!)

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Dec 5, 2007, at 6:57 AM, Patrice Colet wrote:

> Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit :
>
>> AFAIK, the watchdog isn't used on Windows anyhow, so I wouldn't  
>> worry about it.
>
> I believed that pd-watchdog is existing on windows, and is called  
> pd.com, they are both related with PID. I've renamed it to watchdog  
> just for everytime I've asked mysself, "what is this watchdog, what  
> is this pd.com?"

pd.com is a version of pd.exe that opens in a cmd.exe shell so that  
you can get the logs after Pd crashes.  It is not the watchdog AFAIK.

>> AFAIK, I think the MinGW and Cygwin sections in will have some  
>> differences.
>
> If you want to duplicate code, like with portaudio and portmidi,  
> but in both configure.in and makefile.in let it be. I'm very far  
> from being an expert, but for me it doesn't look very nice. For the  
> moment I've a very light definition of a 'good' code, sometimes  
> it's better when it is duplicated, sometimes we should rather make  
> modules. In all case I really would like to know for sure what  
> would be the best choice before writing the definitive code.

Definitely merge them when it makes sense.  I was just saying that I  
think we'll have to still accommodate some minor differences.

.hc

>> least -mno-cygwin is not used in MinGW.
>
> using CYGFLAG would just avoid to duplicate everything for mingw.
>
> also when using g++, -mno-cygwin flag have to be placed  
> differently, something like " -o <XXXX> -mno-cygwin" .

>>>>>
>>>>>  Now the problem is the one I've described before, pd.exe is  
>>>>> mysteriously linked to cygwin1.dll, if I rename pdtcl.dll, an  
>>>>> error message pops up to say something like it couldn't find  
>>>>> "pthread_cond_destroy".
>>>>>
>>>>> ================================================================== 
>>>>> ====
>>>
>>>>> cd ../bin;      dllwrap  -mno-cygwin --export-all-symbol -- 
>>>>> output-def pdtcl.def
>>>>> \
>>>>>         --output-lib=pdtcl.a --dllname=pdtcl.dll ../obj/ 
>>>>> t_tkcmd.o -ldl -lm -lpth
>>>>> readGC2 -lwsock32 -lwinmm -lole32 -ltcl84 -ltk84 -lstdc++ - 
>>>>> ltk84 -ltcl84
>>>>> dllwrap: aucun fichier d'exportation de d'efinitions fourni.
>>>>> Cr'eation du fichier, mais il ne correspondra pas  
>>>>> n'ecessairement `a ce que vous
>>>>>  d'esirez.
>>>>> /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-mingw32/3.4.4/../../../../i686-pc-mingw32/ 
>>>>> bin/ld: AVERTISSE
>>>>> MENT: ne peut trouver le symbole d'entr'ee  
>>>>> __cygwin_dll_entry at 12; utilise par d'
>>>>> efaut 6d081000
>>>>>
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