At the beginning of the semester I had students install g++ and gdb via the MinGW installer.
Now that we're using gdb in an assignment, one student's gdb isn't recognizing the executable file they built using "g++ -g blah.cpp" and such.
It is giving "not in executable format: file format not recognized" - which seems like an x64/x86 mismatch? Haven't seen this problem with any other students yet.
Hey, People I need help.
So.. I need help with colider(at https://codeberg.org/samedev/colider) and I need help porting it to windows.
Requirements:
- using codeberg for a while
- know C
- Knows the Win32 API
keep it in the main.c file
#windows #windows11 #tech #programming #c #codeberg #mingw #linux #archlinux #help
I can neither confirm, nor deny that this is a running #win32 port of #DOjS. Please move on, there is nothing to see (because it does not yet start on #Win98)...
#Javascript #RetroComputing #CreativeCoding #processing #p5js #mingw
@krishean I've had somewhat of a success with creating the gcc using this script I cobbled together:
https://gist.github.com/SuperIlu/1f0ed930d907442c0fcb2566f7e63ae9
The resulting binary runs fine on VBox and 86box.
It bluescreens on my AMD K6-II machine. But that seems to be a little wonky, so I'll re-check on another machine later..
This weekend I tried to compile #Allegro for #Win9x with #mingw.
I was able to get the examples running on #Win10, but when I copied them over to my #Win98 box they crashed with an illegal instruction.
That happened because mingw on #Ubuntu is targeting i686 and I have an AMD K6-II in my test rig.
Then I tried compiling mingw myself with i386 as a target, that failed because the 386 is missing an instruction that is needed by the runtime library.
I got it working with i486, though.
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I have finally implemented all required #WebView2 interfaces in #C and have now my own #browser control which also compiles on #MinGW.
Without a ready-to-use SDK, 'WebView2Loader.dll` and `CreateCoreWebView2EnvironmentWithOptions` is the secret point to start with.
Fortunately, methods were quite comparable to the old #ActiveX browser control I already did know.
If Microsoft invents a new browser API every 10 years I have at least 5 years before I need to adapt my code to the next standard 
Sure, but #Windows is still an Achilles Heal for the #AutoTools, unless you use #MinGW & #MSYS:
“What Autoconf Got Right”, Leah Neukirchen (https://leahneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2024/04/what-autoconf-got-right.html).
Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40544336
On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/ebnqzl/what_autoconf_got_right
I've begun the process of switch Rust's Windows CI to Server 2022, starting with the mingw builders: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/124562
This was tried a couple of years ago, but there some issues with mingw - so kudos to the folks that investigated and fixed those (sorry that I don't have links)!
Next step, the MSVC builders, which will require bumping the version of Clang that's used to build LLVM first...
@rsalz I'd be interested in possibly helping to replace or add another option besides Perl to the build system. That might make the project more appealing to some of the more minimal Linux distributions out there and encourage them to use and contribute to the project. I can also offer to test and debug on Windows with #MinGW if needed.
Smacked head-first into a stupid issue with the #libcurl package deployed by #MinGW / #MSYS / #MinGW64 - turns out that if you copy the DLLs out of the MinGW environment (you know, like if you want to actually *deploy* an application that uses them), libcurl suddenly starts freaking out about "SSL CA cert" problems.
Someone on StackOverflow noticed there's an alternate "mingw-w64-x86_64-curl-winssl" package that doesn't seem to suffer from this issue (which I confirmed). What a damned mess!
Wine 8.4 packages for Slackware
The Wine developers released version 8.4 last week. There's lots of bugfixes of course, but the announcement also mentions that the work has started on a Wayland graphics driver. Note that in the previous 8.3 release for which I did not create packages, Smart Card support was added, using PCSC-Lite for which I also have a package.
https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/wine-8-4-packages-for-slackware/
I can't get i686-w64-mingw32-gcc that comes with Ubuntu to generate i486 code. Even with -march=i486, I can do an objdump on the result and it's full of cmov!
EDIT: I should say I discovered this when I found my gcc executables crashing on launch on my Pentium laptop, even tho they run just fine in Windows NT 4 in a VM on my modern PC.
are there any IDA flirt sigs for Windows #mingw binaries? I assume none, but question is worth asking!
@ygalanter Er, bc is a separate program and not a part of #bash. It’s part of the #POSIX standard that #Linux and #Unix systems (like #macOS) aspire to.
All this is to say it also works fine in #zsh (macOS’s default shell) and even on #Windows with a Unix compatibility later like #Cygwin, #MinGW, or #WSL.
