From: gfoot AT mc31 DOT merton DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Win32 support for DJGPP!!!! Date: 18 Feb 1997 04:19:43 GMT Organization: Oxford University Lines: 47 Message-ID: <5ebakv$kbk@news.ox.ac.uk> References: <3308be2d DOT 11952986 AT news DOT ping DOT be> NNTP-Posting-Host: mc31.merton.ox.ac.uk To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Dominique Biesmans (Dominique DOT Biesmans AT ping DOT be) wrote: : Hi, : I think Win32 support for DJGPP is getting kind of urgent. Ok, there : are alternatives (RSXNTDJ & Cygwin). But cygwin falls under the GPL (& : will go commercial I've seen on their page) and RSXNTDJ doesn't seem : to evolve anymore at all (supports no C++, no DLL's!) : (Think about it: a Win32 port of Allegro! Or a DJFC versus MFC) : So what do you guys think? DJ? Anyone. I'd be happy to help in any way I can - I've done some Windows programming in the past (using Borland Turbo Pascal for Windows), and so I understand how Windows programs work. I know nothing about the file formats, though. If the RSXNTDJ project is dead or has slowed to a crawl, we may be better off either assisting development there, or using the code they already have. Re the points you mentioned: - ld for PE EXEs and DLLs As I said, I know nothing. - Win32 libc Quite a bit of work... but surely most of libc does not apply to Windows programs? The important library is the API interface routines, I think. Would these go in a separate library? libdjw32.a? - resource compiler Maybe we could nick someone else's? Does anyone know what the license on Cygnus' rc is (assuming they have one...)? Its output might not come under GPL, in which case we'd be free to use it (assuming the license allows us to). Even so, a resource compiler should be fairly mechanical to write. - PE debugger Again, I don't know anything about file formats - but the debugger could probably wait until we have a compiling environment set up. -- George Foot Merton College, Oxford.