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

[Jonah Graham <jonah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The other option (aka variation/complication) going forward (see for
example previous discussions from intel folk [1]) is having the tools
in a container. This is seeming like a more and more reasonable
solution to managing the tools and their versions.

[1] https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/cdt-dev/msg30403.html
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Jonah Graham
Kichwa Coders Ltd.
www.kichwacoders.com


On 14 February 2017 at 16:23, Doug Schaefer <dschaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Stand corrected by Liviu’s link. Interesting.
>
> From: <cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Doug Schaefer
> <dschaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: "CDT General developers list." <cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 11:22 AM
>
> To: "CDT General developers list." <cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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>
> Reply-To: "CDT General developers list." <cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 11:09 AM
> To: "CDT General developers list." <cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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
>
> ________________________________
> From:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx <cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of
> Liviu Ionescu <ilg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2017 11:00:30 AM
> To: CDT General developers list.
> 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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