From:	Dominique DOT Biesmans AT ping DOT be (Dominique Biesmans)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Win32 support for DJGPP
Date:	Mon, 24 Feb 1997 17:52:50 GMT
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On Mon, 24 Feb 1997 11:52:08 GMT, Robert Humphris
<r DOT humphris AT indigo-avs DOT com> wrote:

>I have been reading the discussion on this with some interest, as I know
>that windows programming
>is possible with Cygnus's port of the GNU compiler.  The simple way
>would be for some brave soul to
>take out the time to patch together the requisit libraries from Cygwin32
>as well as the headers and what
>ever...

The point is that the libraries from cygnus are the problem. Since
they are under the GPL license, you are under serious restrictions as
far as publishing programs that are linked to their libs is concerned.

>I have my doubts wether this is worth while though,as the extra messing
>around, and the overheads that
>windows causes would mean that many will have to start at the base of a
>very steep learning curve that
>just for a nice gui front end seems a little too much effort.  
>

I'm not a windows-fanatic. (I think it has serious drawbacks, though
it's improving (e.g. NT4)). But windows is a little more than a 'nice
gui front'. The point is that it would be nice to have a free
Windows-development environment in the same way DJGPP is a free
DOS-development environment. And apart from creating full-blown
windows applications it would also be possible to compile
console-applications, without any Windows-specific code. 

>Should we not consider instead that: Windows is possible, and at the
>same price as DJGPP, but
>shouldn't DJGPP  be used for games and applications that are actually
>useful? Just because the corporate

DJGPP with win32-support could e.g. be used to write games using
DirextX. Or to port Allegro to windows...

>world is heading in the direction that Microsoft steers them, it does
>not mean that the likes of the free thinking individual should follow...
>

By having a free development environment for windows, we wouldn't be
so dependant on the tools that microsoft creates.

>Rob Humphris
>
>My views are not those of my companies, they are my own, and no one will
>take them away from me

I'm trying :-)

Dominique Biesmans

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