From:	Dominique DOT Biesmans AT ping DOT be (Dominique Biesmans)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Win32 support for DJGPP!!!!
Date:	Thu, 20 Feb 1997 17:32:23 GMT
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On Tue, 18 Feb 1997 16:16:10 +0000, Douglas Rupp <rupp AT gnat DOT com>
wrote:

>
>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

Sorry, I don't really know the details of the GPL. But basically,
you're saying, as long as you don't link GPL'ed libraries, and you
just use GPL'ed tools (like gcc), you don't have to worry?

>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.
>

I'm afraid  that libc would need a lot of adaptions in order for it to
be usable in Win32 programs, no?

>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.

Hmm, I guess peeking in to the code of Cygwin's win32 stuff could
provide a lot of information, but just 'turning it on for DJGPP' seems
a little bit too easy, not? Not that it has to be difficult, but I
suspect there is a little bit more behind it.

Dominique Biesmans

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