Utilities for Cygwin v1.1

News

• 2001-11-25: cygipc version 1.11 released. sem.h no longer defines union semun, and semctl() now takes three arguments (with the fourth one optional). union semun should be defined within the application code. This is standard, according to SUSv2. However, this is DIFFERENT from Linux, which declares union semun in sem.h, and requires all four arguments for semctl().
  
  This is really a test release, since I'm not sure if these changes will work well -- besides, passing a union as a vararg is a bit tricky... I'd like to know if this works okay with postgresql, especially.
  
  
• 2001-11-25: misc version 0.9.4 released. Added semtool, semstat, shmtool, and msgtool from Linux Programmer's Guide", modified to build against cygipc. These versions will ONLY build against cygipc-1.11; they won't work with any earlier version -- and won't work on non-windows systems. (so much for platform independence, eh?) Well, I'm a'workin' on it.
  
  
• 2001-11-25: misc version 0.9.3 released. Removed uuencode/uudecode -- since those are now part of the official 'sharutils' package. Removed mktemp -- since it is provided by the official 'mktemp' package. Conv now does "the right thing" when the executable is renamed to unix2dos and dos2unix, just like it previously and continues to do "the right thing" when the executable is renamed to u2d or d2u. Autoconfiscated. Tried to make 'misc' more platform neutral, but of course putclip and getclip will only work/build properly on windows-style systems. I'm not sure if the other programs will build properly on other systems yet, but it's a start...
  
  
• 2001-Oct-02: dllhelpers version 0.2.9 released. No longer use the -Wl,--enable-auto-import flag because newer cygwin binutils use --enable-auto-import by default. Also added a 'when_auto_import_fails' example, showing one way of dealing with the problem of multiword DATA exports from a DLL (for more information, see the ld documentation).
  
  
• 2001-Sep-19: dllhelpers version 0.2.8 released. No longer use the -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base flag (see README file inside the archive for more information). Also, added a c_and_c++ example, where two DLLs, one C-based and one C++based, are used by a single C++ file. (Demonstrates that (a) it can be done, and (b) two DLL's with the same image-base is not a problem).
  
  
• 2001-Sep-18: cygIPC version 1.10 released. Added C++ protection to the header files, and fixed an oversight in the public header files (SUS2 requires that sem.h/shm.h/msg.h include ipc.h)
  
  
• 2001-May-13: the usr-local package is now officially obsolete!!!. All of the utilities and libraries that have been at one time or other part of the "usr-local" tarball on this site, are now available from the official distribution. (the freetype library is an exception; it is available as part of the cygwin-xfree distro). I recommed using the (updated) RemoveObsoletePackages tool to remove all vestiges of the CygUtils "usr-local" tarball from your system (see next item).
  
  
• 2001-May-13: the RemoveObsoletePackages tool has been updated to remove all of the obsolete usr-local packages (since EVERYTHING that was a part of the usr-local tarball now fits into that category). Go here, download it, and use it.
  
  
• 2001-May-13: the rxvt and freetype packages have been obsoleted.
  • rxvt was replaced by version 2.7.2-1 now included in the official Cygwin net-release. Get the official version at one of these sites, in the 'cygwin/contrib/rxvt' directory.
  • the freetype libraries are now included in the cygwin-xfree distribution. You can find more information about cygwin-xfree here. However, since the cygwin-xfree distribution does not contain the freetype utility programs, you can get JUST the executables and docs here.
  Note that this now makes the usr-local distribution itself COMPLETELY obsolete.
  
  
• 2001-May-10: the cmd-reactos added. This is an opensource clone of cmd.exe, from the ReactOS project.
  
  
• 2001-Feb-16: the CygIPC package has been updated to version 1.09. ipc-daemon now has the ability to install itself as a service under WinNT/2K without using srvany or instsrv. Thanks to Fred Yankowski for the initial patch, and also to Corinna Vinschen for other improvements. Other fixes from Pete Forman. I added friendly help messages and improved error handling/reporting.
  
  
• 2001-Jan-24: misc package updated to version 0.9.2. Adds an implementation of mktemp, among other improvements.
  
  
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If you prefer to do this by hand, See the cygutils web page for the obsoleted package -- each one shows a list of all files installed by that package. For instance, http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/V1.1/zlib-1.1.3/index.html shows that the following files are installed by the cygutils zlib package (and by the usr-local.tar package):

  /usr/local/include/dl_import.h
  /usr/local/include/zlib.h (dll version)
  /usr/local/include/zconf.h (dll version)
  /usr/local/include/static/zlib.h (static version)
  /usr/local/include/static/zconf.h (static version)
  /usr/local/lib/libz.a-static
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