Re: PNet 0.6.4 for MinGW (back-port)

Earnie Boyd <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.dotgnu.developer
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Maciek Plewa wrote:

> Earnie Boyd wrote:
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>> With MinGW you would use _spawnv instead of fork and execv and _cwait 
>> instead of waitpid.
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> I've used _cwait but I went with CreateProcess instead of _spawnv.

The difference is that _spawnv is more portable.

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>> You'll have to do what libtool does and split the line.  IIRC, the 
>> limit is somewhere around 25000 dependent upon which flavor of windows.
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> It's 32768 chars, while for example csant passes about 48,000 chars 
> when building pnetlib. 

It will depend on the version of the OS.  Not all are that big.

> I'll look at libtool, but now I'm thinking about using a response 
> file, as suggested by Gopal.
>
> So just to recap, the pnet version in the download link provided in 
> the previous message works fine for most tasks, as long as the command 
> line is less than 32,767 chars.
>
Sound good.

Earnie

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