From:	sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles W. Sandmann)
Subject:	Windows 3.1 programming (fwd)
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (djgpp)
Date:	Mon, 14 Jun 1993 15:52:05 -0600 (CDT)

> I'm curious.  What are the technical barriers in getting djgpp
> generated code to communicate with the windows environment?

For an executable to execute as a windowed application under Win 3.x, it 
must be a NE (or EN?) format image.  So, the first first step would be that 
GO32W would have to be an NE format image.  Thus, probably two different GO32
images would be required.  To create GO32W you would have to have the
windows development BCC compiler/linker.   This could probably be done 
with a relatively small effort.

Next, someone would have to write include files + library interfaces to
the Win32s APIs.  This would definitely be non-trivial.  I haven't even
checked to see if MS documents it in the detail necessary to do this.

It's not going to happen unless someone out there wants it bad enough to
do it and provide it to the rest of us.

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