From: "Martin Storsjö" <martin@martin.st>
To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org>
Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] mswindres: Use '-' instead of '/' for rc.exe options
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2023 09:36:30 +0200 (EET)
Message-ID: <3dcd264-1f6-db70-32c3-d523e392ffa@martin.st> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BYAPR12MB323833835EFC0487E1711932A4DD9@BYAPR12MB3238.namprd12.prod.outlook.com>
On Mon, 13 Feb 2023, Ziemowit Laski wrote:
>> Not at all - it's entirely a technical thing. MSYS, which is a fork of
>> cygwin, is an environment to provide a full POSIX (i.e. unix) environment
>> on top of Windows, which involves a lot of trickery to make system calls
>> like fork() work on top of a OS that doesn't provide that.
>
> But that's exactly what Cygwin provides, no?
Yes - MSYS is a fork of Cygwin, with just some tweaks and repackaging for
a slightly different purpose/usecase. (Cygwin wants to be its own universe
where all tools are built in Cygwin mode, while MSYS is intentionally
meant to interoperate more with tools running in native win32 mode.)
// Martin
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-04 19:52 Ziemowit Laski
2023-02-09 11:08 ` Martin Storsjö
2023-02-09 21:01 ` Ziemowit Laski
2023-02-09 21:59 ` Hendrik Leppkes
2023-02-09 22:14 ` Martin Storsjö
2023-02-10 1:47 ` Ziemowit Laski
2023-02-10 22:22 ` Martin Storsjö
2023-02-11 0:13 ` Ziemowit Laski
2023-02-12 22:25 ` Martin Storsjö
2023-02-13 5:17 ` Ziemowit Laski
2023-02-13 7:36 ` Martin Storsjö [this message]
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