[BRLTTY] Compilation problems on Windows

Siddharth siddharth0031 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 17 02:01:17 EDT 2014


Yes, I'm aware and have tried simply running brltty.exe, but that doesn't
install the BrlAPI service.


On 17 April 2014 05:28, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org>wrote:

> Dave Mielke, le Wed 16 Apr 2014 19:47:31 -0400, a écrit :
> > >> brltty.exe: feature not supported: service installation
> > >Ah, that gives way more information to us :)
> > >
> > >Dave, do we have any reason why service_windows is only built on mingw,
> > >and not on cygwin?
> >
> > No, there's no reason. It's easy to make it work on Cygwin. Just confirm
> to me
> > if it for sure should.
>
> Well, I don't actually remember.  Perhaps the service subscription call
> doesn't work on cygwin?
>
> Siddharth, just to make sure: do you know that to start brltty, you can
> install the service as you are trying to do, but you can also simply
> just run brltty.exe by hand. Also, do you really need to build on
> cygwin, and can not build on mingw?
>
> Samuel
>
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