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From: chrismac AT midland DOT co DOT nz (Chris McFarlane)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Win 95/Win 3.1/etc '...url?; GNU & Codeview ?
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 96 21:50:26 GMT
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In article <4l1ffe$luv AT freenet-news DOT carleton DOT ca>,
   ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire) wrote:
>I recall asking earlier about developing Windows code with DJGPP. Somebody
>gave me a URL for the web, for libraries and other info. Somehow I lost
>the URL. Could somebody repost it?

The RsxNT work extends work done by Gnu, Djgpp, Emx, Cygnus, & Virtually Unix 
to bring us native windows exe's on intel; including win32,win32s,win16,
DrOS,& OS2.
RsxNT is indebted to it's forebears, and continues to benefit greatly 
from the cross pollination of parallel efforts folded back into the 
GNU vein, not least is the magnificent Djgpp effort. Enough evangelism 
and praise (interested user only), follow this url : 
ftp://ftp.uni-bielefeld.de/pub/systems/msdos/misc

Some effort remains to be done in enabling use of the full win32 SDK 
headers and libraries, but I have native win32 programs running using the 
Cygnus headers (included), currently under win95 - winNT yet to be tested.
The development tools other gnuish compilers benefit from are not yet
well established for windows use, but rumour is they are work in progress.
A mailing list is yet to be set up focusing on windows development, rather 
than the OS2 focused EMX list; Rainer has suggested to me he might do this 
for the next release.

A question: does anyone know of a patch which allows Djgpp's GDB debugger
to work with CodeView symbols. Microsoft win32 SDK WinDbg requires CodeView 
symbols. The DebNT debugger included with NT09b/RsxNT is usable, but 
primitive when compared to Djgpp's FSDB or WinDbg.

thanks
Chris

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RSXNT 1.1  -- Rainer Schnitker -- rainer AT mathematik DOT uni-bielefeld DOT de   Dez 95
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Version:        RSXNT11 (version 1.1)

Author: 	Rainer Schnitker

Email:		rainer AT mathematik DOT uni-bielefeld DOT de

Registration:	Free for noncommercial use, else $20 USD per project.

Directories:    - add to NT09B-x.ZIP compiler archive (emx+gcc for Win32)
                - EMX+GCC compiler contrib/tools
                - Win95 or NT compiler tools

Description:    Creating Win32 apps with RSXNT and EMX GNU-C/C++ compiler

More descriptions:
    RSXNT11 contain a tool called "NtBind" to convert the GCC compiler output
    to the Win32 format. Moreover you can create import libraries for Win32
    DLLs. Four formats are supported: GUI, CUI, DLL and dual-mode programs.
    The dual-mode programs can also run under DOS (with DOS extender RSX).

    There is a help file in "\rsxnt\doc" for more information.