Brecht Sanders

Building with MinGW (not Cygwin)

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Hi, I had problems building fswatch with MinGW-w64 (both 32 and 64 bit versions), but in the end I was able to build a working version of fswatch by doing...

gmtime_r/localtime_r on MinGW-w64

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When building for Windows with recent MinGW-w64 (e.g. GCC12 from https://winlibs.com/) `gmtime_r` and `localtime_r` are actually available if `_POSIX_THREAD_SAFE_FUNCTIONS` is defined. There is some code that addresses previously missing functions...

Clipboard issue

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I have an issue with recent versions of MSYS2 that I didn't have with older versions. I often paste a large number of commands, some of which are longer that...

.7z issues with backslashes

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I have a Windows application (compiled with MinGW-w64) that uses libarchive (currently version 3.6.2). Since it's Windows the separator used in paths is backslash (instead of slash on other operating...

fix undefined uint8_t when building with GCC 13 by adding `#include ` to `include/some_types.h`

I'm on Windows using MinGW-w64 GCC compiler (using MSYS2 shell) I had issues when gr-c tried to detect the version of the installed qhull. It turns out these are variables...

Issue on Windows calling shedskin Python script from Ninja

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I'm on Windows using MinGW-w64 GCC from the MSYS2 shell, and my Python is not in my `PATH`. When I run: ```bash echo "print('Hello world')" > hello.py $PYDIR/python.exe $MINGWPREFIX/bin/shedskin build...

Building Abseil 20230802.0 with MinGW-w64 fails

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### Describe the issue Building Abseil 20230802.0 with MinGW-w64 fails when building with `-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS:BOOL=ON` ```raw [213/236] Linking CXX shared library bin\libabsl_synchronization.dll FAILED: bin/libabsl_synchronization.dll absl/synchronization/libabsl_synchronization.dll.a cmd.exe /C "cd . && D:\Prog\winlibs64-13.1.0msvcrt\mingw64\bin\x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++.exe...

Add option to remove -lwxtiff -lwxjpeg -lwxpng -lwxzlib -lwxregex -lwxexpat when wxWidgets is using external libraries

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Thanks for creating `wx-config.exe` for Windows. This has helped me building many projects using MSYS2 and MinGW-w64. However I ran into a problem with my recent build of wxWidgets 3.1.3....

Allow building for Windows with MinGW-w64/GCC

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Your website says building for Windows requires Visual Studio. I have just succeeded doing a native Windows build with MinGW-w64 and GCC (from https://winlibs.com/). Note however that some changes were...