Re: Mingw64 and Cygwin: header and libs layout

[JonY <jon_y at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

On 3/13/2012 22:00, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mar 13 09:51, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 02:36:21PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> Hi Kai,
>>>
>>> On Mar 13 14:25, Kai Tietz wrote:
>>>> Hi Corinna,
>>>>
>>>> I suggest the approach to install for cygwin the platform-headers to a
>>>> shared place.  I suggest that mingw-w64 adds to configure for headers
>>>> and crt an option, which installs platform-headers/libraries to
>>>> '/usr/shared/psdk_windows' location.  Means under this path are the
>>>> folders lib/lib64/include containing only the platform-parts.
>>>
>>> That sounds like an excellent idea to me!
>>>
>>>> For the cygwin-based mingw-w64 cross-compiler we need to add here by
>>>> spec (for headers in gcc and for libs in binutils or gcc).  IMHO this
>>>> should be a special configuration option for gcc (and binutils), which
>>>> adds the required parts to spec-files.
>>>
>>> IMHO we should keep the "w32api" scheme.  The reason is that this
>>> requires no changes at all to the gcc specs file.  Rather, the Cygwin
>>> gcc package would simply create matching symlinks:
>>>
>>>  ln -s /usr/share/windows_psdk/include /usr/include/w32api
>>>  ln -s /usr/share/windows_psdk/lib     /usr/lib/w32api
>>>  ln -s /usr/share/windows_psdk/lib64   /usr/lib64/w32api
>>
>> I think it's pretty unusual to install libraries and headers in
>> /usr/share, particularly in the case of libraries.  gcc/linux has
>> conventions for this type of thing.  I broke them when I installed
>> headers and libraries in /usr/include/w32api.  I don't think we should
>> stray further by putting things in /usr/share.
> 
> Well, you have two choices, basically:
> 
> - Either keep the files in /usr/{include,lib,lib64}/w32api, which requires
>   to duplicate the files as it is done today,
> 
> - or keep only one copy of the files in well-known places and create
>   the various w32api's as symlinks to these well-known places.
> 
> My stance is that we should give up the unnecessary duplication of the
> files.  Then the question is just, where to install the shared platform
> files so that they are accessible from all affected compilers, the Cygwin
> GCCs as well as the Mingw64 GCCs.  IMO /usr/share is the right place
> for everything which is shared between multiple packages.  And if all
> compilers use symlinks, it doesn't really matter where the shared files
> are.  If /usr/share turns out to be not quite right, you can easily
> move them around and just fix the symlinks.
> 

Personally, I think it'll be better too for the mingw-w64 cross
compilers (I should really update them about now). TWith /usr/share
install, they can now share a common set of headers/libs instead of
duplicating the files.

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