From:	Douglas Rupp <rupp AT gnat DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Win32 support for DJGPP!!!!
Date:	Tue, 18 Feb 1997 16:16:10 +0000
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> I thought before and still think this is a very important project.  I
> would encourage anyone who can, to please go ahead and make it happen.
> The Win32 platforms currently don't have a decent free solution for
> developing software, which is a Bad Thing IMHO, especially as serious
> development has all but left MSDOS.
> 
> Unfortunately, I know almost nothing about Win32, which at least
> currently prevents me from contributing to this project.

The capability is already in gcc, gas, gld, and gdb to work with win32,
courtesy (mostly) of Cygnus, and it's all GPL'd which is fine since
they're tools.  It just needs to be turn on for DJGPP, easier said than
done, but needs to be looked at to see just how hard.

Cygnus put a lot of work into their libc, which is fine since DJGPP has
it's own.

What's left?  Reinventing the Windows header files which is a lot of
tedious, mind-numbing work, but not technically difficult?  BUilding a
resource compiler?  SOmeone said this wasn't to bad.

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