Re: [cdt-dev] Autotools, GCC, GDB, etc on Windows what to use nowadays?

[Doug Schaefer <dschaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stand corrected by Liviu’s link. Interesting.

From: <cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Doug Schaefer <dschaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 11:22 AM
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Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] Autotools, GCC, GDB, etc on Windows what to use nowadays?

I’ve been playing with it and I can’t see how it’ll ever work. Mainly, it can’t launch Windows binaries. It truly is a Linux Virtual Machine, not an emulation layer like Cygwin and certainly not native like MinGW.

As a side story, I was trying it out as a cross build strategy for Two since Electron Packager needs to run a Windows binary to package up the Windows bits. I went as far as considering installing Wine into it but the Wine package isn’t made available in their subset of Ubuntu. I think that means they have plans on allowing execution of Windows binaries natively at some point.

Doug.

From: <cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Marc-André Laperle <marc-andre.laperle@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 11:09 AM
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Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] Autotools, GCC, GDB, etc on Windows what to use nowadays?

I'm not clear on how the Ubuntu stuff works. Is it possible to call an command from. outside bash? I don't know if Eclipse running as a normal Win32 application/subsystem could access that subsystem.

Just asking in case some someone knows a bit more about this, or any useful links.

Marc-André

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From:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx <cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Liviu Ionescu <ilg@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] Autotools, GCC, GDB, etc on Windows what to use nowadays?

 

> On 14 Feb 2017, at 17:44, Doug Schaefer <dschaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> ... only MSYS2 has an active community any more

until Microsoft's Ubuntu shell will be fully functional, I think MSYS2 is the only alternative which still has some traction. (disclaimer, not a Windows user)


regards,

Liviu

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