Re: purpose of the c wrapper

[Vincent Torri]

On Sun, 7 Jun 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> * Vincent Torri wrote on Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 12:28:23AM CEST:
> > On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Roumen Petrov wrote:
> > > Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > > But anyway, I don't see how the current git code generates C wrappers
> > > > for wince.
> > >
> > > The host is usually xxx-mingw32ce and will match patterns like
> > > {*-}*-mingw*, i.e. it will generate wrappers as for mingw32.
> >
> > i have just sent a mail with a patch for that.
> >
> > > But the C-wrapper-code of current (my repository close is about one
> > > month old) libtool  don't include error.h :
> > > .....
> > > #ifndef __MINGW32CE__
> > > # include <errno.h>
> > > #endif
> >
> > and if the patch os accepted, you can remove the 3 #ifndef __MINGW32CE__
> > that are in the wrapper for cygwin / mingw
>
> Vincent, you're contradicting yourself over the course of this work.
> I thought at one point we got the wrapper to work on mingwce.  I mean
> that's the reason we added those __MINGW32CE__ ifdefs in the first
> place.

If so, then there was a misundestanding. The problem is that i reported 
the strangeness of the Windows CE OS (no errno, no environment variable) 
once and the thread died without answer on how to solve the problem.

So several months later, i try to fix the c wrapper myself, but it's a 
pain and is of no use anyway for cegcc framework.

>  If they fail to work properly now, then we should fix *that*,

no fix, remove the c wrapper for the cegcc and mingw32ce host instead.

> not hack around it.  Or you should come out straight and say "we tried
> to get the wrapper to work, but it failed for reasons X and Y which we
> cannot solve, so how about we punt and not generate a wrapper?".

again, using cegcc framework (that is cegcc and mingw32ce), i do not have 
environment variables, nor errno, nor curent working directory, nor spawn* 
functions, etc... That is, plenty of functions that are needed for the 
wrapper.

i am against a c wrapper for those 2 hosts. Even if there are simulators, 
they are all specific to a version of Windows CE. Developping for Windows 
CE is a pain, a real one. I have wasted my time to fix the wrapper without 
success. I don't want to spend more time for a dead end.

so:

1) remove the wrapper for cegcc and mingw32ce host (see the patch i sent)
2) remove the #ifndef __MINGW32CE__ the in windows wrapper, they are 
useless.

Vincent Torri