Re: Issues with Windows gcc -mno-cygwin (Mingw)

[David PONCE <david.ponce@wanadoo.fr>]

Hi Jason,

>>- Problem with _fmode (global MSC variable set to O_BINARY as the
>>  default file mode).  For a simple patch see below.  Strictly
>>  speaking I think the real problem is that this is not handled
>>  without the _fmode hack.  The code should just use its own global
>>  variable (or even more simply just add O_BINARY everywhere) instead
>>  of using this brittle compiler/runtime dependent solution.
> 
> 
> I don't understand what problem this is fixing. Can you explain some
> more?

I use latest versions of native mingw tools (not through cygwin):

- gcc 3.2.2 (mingw special 20030208-1)
- binutils 2.13.90-20030111-1
- mingw-runtime 2.4
- w32api 2.2

I also encountered that problem, with latest versions of the
mingw-runtime (2.3, 2.4).

Since these versions, the default runtime _fmode is text mode.
Because of that, I noticed that Emacs incorrectly reads some data,
and I got runtime errors, particularly in the function
"get_doc_string" in doc.c.

I followed the examples given by the mingw team, and did the
following patch, that I put in sysdep.c.  Since that, my Emacs works
like a charm!

Notice that I had to do the same thing with the latest pretest
21.2.95, to fix similar problems.

Hope it will help.
David

Index: src/sysdep.c
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RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/src/sysdep.c,v
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--- src/sysdep.c	19 Mar 2003 07:29:14 -0000
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*** 3231,3236 ****
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  #endif /* not WINDOWSNT */
  #endif /* ! HAVE_STRERROR */
  \f
+ /*
+   Since version 2.3 mingw-runtime default IO mode is textmode.
+   That causes invalid data to be read by Emacs, which in turn causes
+   various execution failures.  Changing default runtime IO mode to
+   binary, when mingw-runtime is > 2.2, avoid that.
+ */
+ #if defined(WINDOWSNT) && defined (__MINGW32__) \
+   && __MINGW32_MAJOR_VERSION >= 2 && __MINGW32_MINOR_VERSION > 2
+ #include <fcntl.h>              /* _O_BINARY */
+ int _CRT_fmode = _O_BINARY;
+ #endif
+ 
  int
  emacs_open (path, oflag, mode)
       const char *path;