Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-harmony-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 66408 invoked from network); 25 Mar 2006 08:51:19 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (209.237.227.199) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 25 Mar 2006 08:51:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 95358 invoked by uid 500); 25 Mar 2006 08:51:17 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-harmony-dev-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 94926 invoked by uid 500); 25 Mar 2006 08:51:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact harmony-dev-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 94915 invoked by uid 99); 25 Mar 2006 08:51:15 -0000 Received: from asf.osuosl.org (HELO asf.osuosl.org) (140.211.166.49) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 00:51:15 -0800 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.3 required=10.0 tests=RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (asf.osuosl.org: domain of mark.hindess@googlemail.com designates 64.233.184.226 as permitted sender) Received: from [64.233.184.226] (HELO wproxy.gmail.com) (64.233.184.226) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 00:51:13 -0800 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 37so1121338wra for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 00:50:51 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=googlemail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=mr60crFL6XwSN49PGd1HSKxxQlbdaws2tWCGOJu91u0ZN5apPew7XckXdpNXneXaq5bVJvPhtAhyck1yW+f7o6buupb56Oh3wxSZF+LWrd3WLye03nSnzYIx5K6vANlu2Qp6bW45uugYr8ix8ZCqBq7xnhoqBUYGyEDnZN/5iUw= Received: by 10.35.43.10 with SMTP id v10mr260932pyj; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 00:50:50 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.35.63.11 with HTTP; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 00:50:50 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 08:50:50 +0000 From: "Mark Hindess" To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: how to build Harmony on Windows (with minimum of commercial soft) In-Reply-To: <7c0188a20603241651y640865di978e0d9d5ef3c480@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <906dd82e0603220141t465107dbt@mail.gmail.com> <44214135.4020806@pobox.com> <906dd82e0603220713p692609aci@mail.gmail.com> <906dd82e0603232137u31516703v@mail.gmail.com> <4423AF4B.6040303@gmail.com> <906dd82e0603240053n4ca282a7g@mail.gmail.com> <20060324115648.GA39290@bali.sjc.webweaving.org> <44242AD2.1080803@pobox.com> <19e0530f0603241234m3a57e1f1ped24f4d79372ae52@mail.gmail.com> <7c0188a20603241651y640865di978e0d9d5ef3c480@mail.gmail.com> X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org X-Spam-Rating: minotaur.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N On 3/25/06, Fernando Cassia wrote: > I repeat my -perhaps naive- question: any reason for not making the win32 > build of Harmany based on the OpenWatcom open source compiler?? > > www.openwatcom.org As dims said "patches welcome", I also think it would be interesting to look at the possibility of building with cygwin gcc - using the '-no-cygwin' option to create binaries using the native crtdll.dll (rather than cygwin1.dll).=20 There's a howto at: http://www.delorie.com/howto/cygwin/mno-cygwin-howto.html In many ways this should be much easier to maintain since there should be more in common with the tool chains of other platforms - linux for instance. Regards, Mark. -- Mark Hindess IBM Java Technology Centre, UK.