Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Extending C with GC? Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2016 14:32:35 -0700 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <60b33d17-71b7-4ecf-a821-dc641e2673ba@googlegroups.com> <3aa70e31-6e2f-42df-9c52-60cd923ddb6e@googlegroups.com> <6c8ded05-9ca9-4bae-a603-00b526ac0a77@googlegroups.com> <39d45c61-964f-46e8-8f62-ee9611ee0d6d@googlegroups.com> <0fe11c04-9255-475b-a3b3-797d3119ec26@googlegroups.com> <4c5800c3-b867-4daf-acb3-1c3e0fd6d789@googlegroups.com> <87k2funj8k.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <68fcbc3e-2320-463d-8cfc-bff6f4d04138@googlegroups.com> <36309d12-d08e-4817-b2e5-7d9b974f0fc0@googlegroups.com> <87lh08n2s3.fsf@bsb.me.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="945944de09706c9b4e29b53c9d2efdc2"; logging-data="18142"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18IOmzZZ+H8Pnc5cSxQSeVz" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8VkZ3JqZ73fquLKGigoDdwNlI7Q= sha1:HP64EptC8XTdKT2LSyOSnJ9qVN0= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:91877 BartC writes: [...] > In the case of GC, that's 500 files of which half are .c or .h files. > Which ones do I need to compile for a Windows version? I don't know. > This apparently classified information is only known to Make (and > possibly only after running ./configure to make the makefile! I've > absolutely no idea what's going on. If it doesn't work, I'm ****ed) By GC, do you mean Boehm's garbage collection package? If so, the included README.QUICK file contains instructions for building on Windows. But the current distribution contains only 105 *.h and *.c files, not 500. If GC is a typo for GCC, you've already discussed this numerous times. [...] > The one for GMP is elusive. (There is probably a version bundled within > gcc - which is for gcc's own use. But so what, downloading the right gcc > bundle in order to extract a single file is also a hassle.) No, gcc doesn't include a bundled version of gmp. It depends on it already being installed. > However, why aren't binaries of popular libraries already available? The > very first person who successfully manages to build one will have a copy! You mean Windows binaries, right? How is that a C question? Ask somewhere else. -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc. "We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this." -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"