[kaffe] Native Cygwin Kaffe for Cygwin/Xfree

[Jim Pick]

Good questions.  I haven't played with the win32 much yet, other than
trying to get it to compile.

I just tried configuring it with "./configure
--with-threads=unix-pthreads", and the compile died in
kaffe/kaffevm/systems/unix-pthreads/thread-impl.c when it tries to
include the bits/local_lim.h file, which doesn't exist on cygwin. 
That's probably non-portable (I think _POSIX_THREAD_THREADS_MAX is the
#define that is used) and should be fixed.  Any takers?

If pthreads work nicely in cygwin, I'd be very interested in seeing in
how it compares to our win32 threads.

I imagine X11 support should just work, unfortunately, on my cygwin
install, I don't seem to have the X11 headers (I did install the XFree86
stuff in the past).  When I get some time, I'll fix my setup, and try
testing it.

Cheers,

 - Jim

On Sat, 2002-07-06 at 05:45, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently running Cygwin with XFree86-4.2.0.  I was 
> curious if anyone had tried compiling a pure cygwin native 
> version of kaffe whose awt used Cygwin/XFree rather then the 
> win32 api?  Also, since cygwin is now pretty much posix 
> thread-safe, I'm planning on using pthreads.  Is this 
> possible or is it just a pipe dream?
> 
> Cheers,
> Nicholas
> 
> 
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