Re: Status of Posix on Windows

On 2024-05-29, Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> wrote:

OK. So bottom line is no, I can't reasonably expect my millions of
Windows Baby X programmer users to use directorytoxml.

What? On the contrary here is a .zip of the executable, with needed
DLLs:

https://www.kylheku.com/~kaz/d2xml.zip

SHA256: fbd56a70a23cc34e6085c5a754c79046c0f96258e4aebda8197e82a53c3551ef

All I did weas build this on Cygwin with

   gcc -O2 directorytoxml.c -o d2xml
  
Then bundled the d2xml.exe with the needed DLLs and zipped up.
Literally, a minute of work.

The cygwin1.dll isn't the Cygwin one but from the Cygnal project,
so this should understand native Windows paths. If you point it
at C:\Users\whoever\whatever, it should work.

Remark: I would have used the POSIX nftw function in this, instead of
rolling my own recursive traversal.

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