From:	Paul Shirley <Paul AT chocolat DOT foobar DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Adding Windows Support?
Date:	Sun, 10 Nov 1996 22:09:31 +0000
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In article <Pine DOT GSO DOT 3 DOT 94 DOT 961109025749 DOT 10484A-100000 AT zippy>, Samuel
Vincent <svincent AT cs DOT sonoma DOT edu> writes
>Who would be interested in this attempt?  The difference between this and
>gnu-win32 would be libraries that aren't GPL'd.  We could distribute it as
>DJGPP is done, with our own library functions, making it free to use for
>commercial as well as other projects.

Cygnus don't normally GPL their own libraries so that may be a
nonproblem (I would check but I deleted B16 a while back and cygnus' web
site appears to be down from here at the momemnt ;)

A better option might be to start with the mimimalist gcc-win32 effort
and port the djgpp libraries to that.
Check out http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/mingw32.html

-- 
Paul Shirley

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