Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/02/18/00:51:48
Dominique Biesmans (Dominique DOT Biesmans AT ping DOT be) wrote:
: Hi,
: I think Win32 support for DJGPP is getting kind of urgent. Ok, there
: are alternatives (RSXNTDJ & Cygwin). But cygwin falls under the GPL (&
: will go commercial I've seen on their page) and RSXNTDJ doesn't seem
: to evolve anymore at all (supports no C++, no DLL's!)
: (Think about it: a Win32 port of Allegro! Or a DJFC versus MFC)
: So what do you guys think? DJ? Anyone.
I'd be happy to help in any way I can - I've done some Windows programming
in the past (using <pardon my language> Borland Turbo Pascal for Windows),
and so I understand how Windows programs work. I know nothing about the file
formats, though.
If the RSXNTDJ project is dead or has slowed to a crawl, we may be better
off either assisting development there, or using the code they already
have.
Re the points you mentioned:
- ld for PE EXEs and DLLs
As I said, I know nothing.
- Win32 libc
Quite a bit of work... but surely most of libc does not apply to Windows
programs? The important library is the API interface routines, I think.
Would these go in a separate library? libdjw32.a?
- resource compiler
Maybe we could nick someone else's? Does anyone know what the license on
Cygnus' rc is (assuming they have one...)? Its output might not come under
GPL, in which case we'd be free to use it (assuming the license allows us
to). Even so, a resource compiler should be fairly mechanical to write.
- PE debugger
Again, I don't know anything about file formats - but the debugger could
probably wait until we have a compiling environment set up.
--
George Foot <gfoot AT mc31 DOT merton DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
Merton College, Oxford.
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