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From: Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Status of Posix on Windows
Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 18:40:39 +0100
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On 29/05/2024 17:16, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> On 2024-05-29, Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm currently using a Mac.
>>
>> The recent discussion about the "embed" directive inspired me to find a
>> solution to the problem of embedding a directory in an ANSI C program,
>> of course without a modern compiler. You can see my proposal at
>>
>> http://malcolmmclean.github.io/babyxrc/importingdirectories.html
>>
>> (It's in the babyxrc documentation on github if this link doesn't work)
>>
>> The program directorytoxml crawls a diectory and converts it to XML. And
>> it can't be written in ANSI C. It has to use Posix. The question is
>> whether this in in practise portable to Windows, or if I need to dust
>> off a Windows machine and write a Windows version using FindFirstFile
>> and FindNextFile.
> 
> I use Cygwin for porting POSIX stuff to Windows. Cygwin moved to the
> LGPL in 2016, which allows you to ship a program with its DLLs,
> even if the program is proprietary.
> 
> I forked the main Cygwin DLL in order to bring about "native Windows"
> behaviors in a number of areas, resulting in a project called Cygnal.
> This is referenced in my current Usenet signature.
> 
> The downside of Cygwin is that it has slow file access. From following
> discussions on the Cygwin mailing list, my understanding is that at
> least some of it has to do with Cygwin having to make multiple accesses.
> Like when you access a file foo, it has to check whether there is a
> foo.lnk and foo.exe and such.
> 
OK. So bottom line is no, I can't reasonably expect my millions of 
Windows Baby X programmer users to use directorytoxml. If utterly 
determined they can of curse make things work by messing abut with 
Cygwin. But the sirit of BabyX is tht everything is easy for the hobby 
programmer.

So eitber some nice person will volunteer, or I'll have to get a Windows 
machine. Work have kindly let me keep my work Apple Mac even though I've 
had to give up work due to ill health, but the Windows machine is at my 
own house which I don't live in any more (long story, and no it's not 
family disputes fortunately, except no-one accepts that my house is 
actually mine because my grandmother got it for free off Margaret 
Thatcher, and currently sister has designs on it whilst Dad is demented 
and needs me to live with him. So Windows machine not very accessible, 
and I'm too ill to drive).
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