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current mutt on Cygwin fails to compile.



Greetings,

mutt cannot currently be compiled on Cygwin (1.5), as it uses unimplemented functions in a handful of places, namely fputws, fgetws, ungetwc [1]. It appears as though Cygwin 1.7 test versions implement these [2], however, 1.7 is not supposed to be used in production.

Reverting to the changeset shown below allows me to build mutt on Cygwin.

changeset:   5479:95a11c7f677d
branch:      HEAD
user:        Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>
date:        Mon Aug 18 13:08:43 2008 -0700
summary:     Updated French translation.


So what's the view on Cygwin portability of mutt? Ignore? Wait for Cygwin to provide interfaces? Implement portability later?

Thanks & best regards
MA


[1] http://dev.mutt.org/trac/changeset/3e850c6e43fd by Rocco to fix ticket #3033, Aug 2008
[2] http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2008-12/msg00023.html

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Matthias Andree