Re: Native compilation on Windows, was Re: Bootstrap Compilation Speed

["Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>]

"H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> writes:

> I realised that ntldd.exe doesn't show any msys/mingw dependencies at
> all, only Windows stuff! -> So I removed all Windows references from
> PATH.  (Don't ask me why ntldd searches Windows paths first.)

Are you saying that you have dlls with the same name under /mingw64 and
/Windows ?

> Then, it seem's, that the msys/mingw people changed the tree layout of
> their files!

No, we didn't.

> When I'm changing "msys64" with "mingw64" in
> build-dep-zips.py:
>
>   def ntldd_munge(out):
>       deps = out.splitlines()
>       rtn = []
>       for dep in deps:
>           ## Output looks something like this
>
>           ## KERNEL32.dll => C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\KERNEL32.dll (0x0000000002a30000)
>           ## libwinpthread-1.dll => C:\msys64\mingw64\bin\libwinpthread-1.dll (0x0000000000090000)
>
>           ## if it's the former, we want it, if its the later we don't

The comment above seems reversed.

>           splt = dep.split()
>           ## if len(splt) > 2 and "msys64" in splt[2]:
>           if len(splt) > 2 and "mingw64" in splt[2]:
>               print("Adding dep", splt[0])
>               rtn.append(splt[0].split(".")[0])
>
>       return rtn
>
> It copies much more DLLs to the deps folder.  :-)

Probably your MSYS2 install is not in a directory named "msys64" (the
"in" operator in Python is case-sensitive, isn't it?)