Re: Problems installing Boost regex library for Linux RH 6.2 gcc 2.95.2

From: William Kempf (sirwillard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-11-29 15:22:36

--- In boost_at_[hidden], Dan Nuffer <dnuffer_at_c...> wrote:
> William Kempf wrote:
> > Though these tools will work, I don't know if they are "the best".
> > They require the CYGWIN runtime (DLL) and as such are slow, in
> > comparison to native tools.  The MinGW utilities are often 
better, in
> > this regard (http://mingw.sourceforge.net).
> > 
> 
> In my experience I never noticed any *significant* decrease in 
speed. 
> If you measured it, I'd be surprised if the syscall heavy programs 
ran
> more than 20% slower, whereas cpu bound programs such as gcc are
> probably less than 5% difference.
> Anyway, MinGW doesn't include tar or gzip, just the basic GNU 
toolchain.

Only partially true.  The MinGW proper only supplies the GNU 
toolchain, however the site I posted has links to several *nix 
utilities ported to MinGW (i.e. native Win32 compilations).  tar and 
gzip are counted among them, I believe.

> > Installation of the CYGWIN environment is now totally automated
> > through a setup.exe which d/ls the selected components and 
installs
> > them for you.  Other than speed complaints because of the POSIX
> > emulation done in cygwin.dll this does set you up with a complete
(?)
> > POSIX environment on Win32.  I'm not sure how easy it will be to 
just
> > pluck out the two utilities needed, however, so even with out the
> > concerns of cygwin.dll this may not be appropriate for this task.
> > 
> > Bill Kempf
> 
> 
> Yeah, that is kind of a lot to install, just to create a tar.gz 
file.  I
> did a search on winfiles.com and there are probably 100 different 
free
> win32 compression programs that say that they handle tar.gz.  I 
can't
> give any pointers, since I've only used WinZip, which will read 
tar.gz
> files, but not create them.

There are native tar and gzip executables for Win32.  I used native 
ports in DOS almost a Decade ago, and those would still work with 
Win32.  If I find the time I'll try to search the site I gave earlier 
to give a specific URL for these tools.

Bill Kempf