Re: Compiling 4.0 under cygwin/mingw (was: Compiling 4.0b under mingwin)

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At 12:29 PM 5/6/2001 +0100, <rrt@dcs.gla.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Today I attempted to build Lua-4.0 using the following:
>>
>> Windoze 98
>> cygwin-1.3.1-1
>> gcc-2.95.3-4
>> mingw-20010424-1
>>
>> As with the Reuben Thomas' message from October of last
>> year, building with -mno-cygwin appears to be successful
>> but lua.exe just hangs when executed (no errors displayed
>> in my case and it can be terminated with CTRL-C).  Luac
>> *does* work.  Any idea what's going on with lua.exe?
>
>There's a difference here: when I built Lua, it *crashed* on startup (as I
>said above), whereas yours hangs. Are you running it perchance from an Emacs
>shell? Interactive programs don't tend to work there. Otherwise, I don't
>know what's going on, but things do seems to have improved since I last
tried.
>
>-- 
>http://sc3d.org/rrt/ | plagiarism, n.  the mind burgles
>

Nope, no emacs involved.  I tried running lua from the cygwin bash
shell and the plain old DOS prompt.