Re: Cygwin Subprocesses on XEmacs

Mats Lidell writes: >>>>>> Henry S Thompson <ht(a)inf.ed.ac.uk&gt; writes: >> Next step -- back to working on 64-bit xemacs. . . > > When I try to build the latest 21.5 on 64 bit cygwin I get this error. > > $ LANG=C make > gcc -c -I/usr/include/noX -I/usr/include/noX -Wall -Wno-switch -Wundef -Wsign-compare -Wno-char-subscripts -Wpacked -Wpointer-arith -Wshadow -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wunused-parameter -g -Demacs -I. -I/src/xemacs/work/testing/src -DHAVE_CONFIG_H glyphs.c > In file included from /usr/include/w32api/winscard.h:11:0, > from /usr/include/w32api/windows.h:97, > from /usr/include/noX/X11/simx.h:42, > from /usr/include/noX/X11/xpm.h:87, > from glyphs.c:68: > /usr/include/w32api/winioctl.h:206:5: error: unknown type name 'DEVICE_TYPE' > DEVICE_TYPE DeviceType; My notes from last spring say Renamed DEVICE_TYPE to DEVICE_TYPE_X in device-impl.h and everywhere it is used to avoid collision with DEVICE_TYPE in winioctl.h I did rather a lot of other hacking as well, but please carry on and let us know how things go. I just pulled, updated and merged, distclean and recompiled, alas no change from last April: > src/xemacs -nw works, but > src/xemacs & fails with Fatal error: assertion failed, file event-msw.c, line 4149, !NILP (Vmswindows_frame_being_created) I have made a number of 32->64 bit changes in event-msw.c My notes from April say the error in event-msw.c inside mswindow_find_frame, inside intercepted_wnd_proc (a signal handler?), where we have a window with no frame saved, appears to happen when the main thread is in mswindows_init_frame_1 at frame-msw.c:139 at recompute_all_cached_specifiers_in_frame at specifier.c:3483 at recompute_one_cached_specifier_in_frame at specifier.c:3444 around the sixth one [/me goes back to day job] ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht(a)inf.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail from me _always_ has a .sig like this -- mail without it is forged spam]