Smartcard PC/SC support in MingW on Fedora

NightStrike nightstrike at gmail.com
Mon Nov 15 16:25:02 UTC 2010


On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Erik van Pienbroek
<erik at vanpienbroek.nl> wrote:
> fkooman at tuxed.net schreef op ma 15-11-2010 om 11:36 [+0100]:
>> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Erik van Pienbroek
>> <erik at vanpienbroek.nl> wrote:
>> > The old mingw.org project does not bundle headers like winscard.h. The
>> > new mingw-w64 project looks much more promising. See [1] for the
>> > contents of this header.
>>
>> I managed to get it to work with your cross* testing repository.
>> Thanks! Only issue left is that the winscard{.h,.lib} support is only
>> available in the x86_64 tree, and not in the i686 tree, what is up
>> with that? It this easy to "fix"?
>
> It looks like the winscard.def file (which is used to generate a .a/.lib
> file) for the i686 target doesn't exist in the v1.0 branch of the
> mingw-w64 project [1]. However, it does exist in the development branch
> of the mingw-w64 project [2]. The fedora-cross testing repository is
> based on the v1.0 branch of the mingw-w64 project.
>
> If there's enough demand for it I can rebase my work to the development
> branch of the mingw-w64 project although I don't know how stable it
> currently is. Perhaps somebody who is more involved in the mingw-w64
> project can comment on this?

You can post a feature request on our tracker and ask Ozkan Sezer to
backport that one def file.  He can then review the request, and then
you'd have your support in the 1.0 branch.  Or just use trunk.


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