Fixing Imake

Robert Collins robert.collins@itdomain.com.au
Wed Apr 11 21:08:00 GMT 2001


----- Original Message -----
From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo@msu.edu>
To: "Cygx (E-mail)" <cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 1:46 PM
Subject: Fixing Imake


> Here's a line from xc/config/imake/Makefile.ini
>
> imake.exe:: imake.obj
> cl -nologo imake.obj libc.lib kernel32.lib
>
> Anyone else think that linking with kernel32.lib might be the root of
the
> problem?
>
> Harold
>
>

Nope. kernel32 is always linked in implicitly. What will be an issue is
if
a) Imake is using win32 file read and write calls or
b) it doesn't set the fhandle to text mode when it opened, or brefore
reads occur.

Rob



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