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From: malcolm AT manawatu DOT gen DOT nz (Malcolm Taylor)
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Subject: Re: Cygnus gnu-win32 OR djgpp with RSXWIN
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 03:39:07 GMT
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"Young U. Ryu" <ryoung AT utdallas DOT edu> wrote:


>> malcolm AT manawatu DOT gen DOT nz (Malcolm Taylor) wrote in article
><4p50qa$79u AT news DOT manawatu DOT gen DOT nz>...
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
>> 
>> RSXNT can do NT and Win95 executables. There is also a port of the EMX
>> compiler to run as a Win32 console app (ie Win95 or WinNT app) which
>> will create Win32 apps, Win/DOS dual mode apps, ... It has gdb and
>> windbg running under windows (to my knowledge) as debuggers, which
>> fills the previous gap in debugging. The only drawback to my knowledge
>> is that to use the RSXNT kit for commercial or shareware you have to
>> register it. Also I have no idea how well either RSXNT or the windows
>> emx work.

>Any idea if RSXNT supports long file name?

I think this is actually an invalid question. RSXNT provides tools to
create Win32 executables, not to compile programs. The LFN support
will depend on the compiler. The port of EMX he has done will probably
cope fine though (however I have had no experience with it, just
guessing).

Malcolm