RE: frustrated newbie

["L. Holcombe" <worker201 at yahoo dot com>]

Rupert,
Actually, what I am running is MS Services for Unix 3
-- is that Interix 2.2 or 3?  Documentation is sketchy
there.

I tried to build gcc3.3, and ran into a whole other
nest of snakes that will have to be unraveled later.

Oh, and I also installed Cygwin, because, as you said,
it is well supported.  Unfortunately, after spending
the last few months churning thru the Cshell, I
couldn't find a shell in Cygwin that I knew how to
use.  I wish I had time to experiment more!

Anyway, thanks for your suggestions.  I will try that
flag out right away.  Cheers!



--- Rupert Wood <me@rupey.net> wrote:
> L Holcombe wrote:
> 
> > I am having some perplexing problems using gcc on
> my system.
> > Currently running Interix 2.2 subsystem over
> WinXP.
> 
> Oh you don't want to do that. Interix 3 is *so* much
> nicer.
> 
> The problem with Interix 2.2 is that it's a very
> minimal POSIX
> implementation. That's useful as an academic tool to
> test portability but
> you end up banging your head against it when try to
> build most common
> packages. Even GNU make doesn't work out of the box
> - it assumes the
> main(argc,argv,envp) extension that Interix 2.2
> doesn't provide.
> 
> > According to 'gcc --version' I have:
> cygnus-2.7.2-970404
> 
> That's very old. You're unlikely to get GCC past
> 2.8.x to build on Interix
> 2.2 without a lot of work. (More recent - 3.2+ -
> GCCs will build on Interix
> 3 with a trivial fix.) But I don't think that
> version's the problem:
> 
> > It seems like it is trying to compile the xdr.h
> file (Sun RPC), and
> > i understand that it is not actually supposed to
> do this!
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean - that Interix 2.2
> doesn't support Sun RPC (which
> wouldn't surprise me except that *is* an Interix
> system header) or that your
> source isn't supposed to include xdr.h?
> 
> In any case, a good aid to porting to Interix is
> '-D_ALL_SOURCE'. This
> includes extra defines that they omitted by default
> (c.f.
> WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN I suppose) and will many
> problems with portable sources.
> It looks to me like your problem is a missing
> typedef and _ALL_SOURCE might
> just catch that.
> 
> Good luck,
> Rup.
> 
> P.S. I'm a fan of Interix in general, but if I don't
> mention this then
> someone else will: another solution might be to drop
> Interix 2.2 in favour
> of Cygwin. It gets a lot more user exposure with
> freely available sources
> and there's more user support out there. I like
> Interix 3 myself though.
>