Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 11:44:14 -0600 (CST)
From: Casey Corcoran <ckcorcor AT p5 DOT csrd DOT uiuc DOT edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com, Robert DOT Hoehne AT Mathematik DOT TU-Chemnitz DOT de,
        Alessandro Rizzoli <rizzoli AT p5 DOT csrd DOT uiuc DOT edu>
Subject: Re: Nmake for WinNT 3.5 utilities
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Eli,

Well, after digging through the info files and sources for the past week
and a half, I capitulate . . .  As nice as developing with MSVC would be,
the porting effort seems staggering . . .  Meanwhile, I've installed
RHIDE, and it seems to work OK.

Along those lines, I wonder:

Has a project for djgpp been built under RHIDE?  Is it available?  

If not, do you think it is feasible to build one, or should I concentrate
my efforts on manually editing the existing make file as we go along?

Thanks again for yor help.

|...... Casey K. Corcoran ......| University of Illinois 
|...... ckcorcor AT uiuc DOT edu ......| Center for Supercomputing R & D 
|....... (217) 244-0049 ........| 1308 W. Main Street, Urbana, IL 61801


On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Casey Corcoran wrote:
> 
> > I am working on a project to generate native x86 code from java bytecode. 
> > The approach we are taking is to write a front end for djgpp.  It is my
> > task, at this point, to become familiar with gcc and set up a development
> > environment.  To date MSVC has been our platform of choice.  However,
> > after looking at the sources and the makefile, I don't think it is going
> > to be efficient to port the sources.  Instead, I think we can write the
> > front end on MSVC and wrap a variant of the djgpp makefile into the MSVC
> > project.
> 
> I disagree with that assessment.  From my experience, it should be
> much easier to port your MSVC sources to DJGPP and then use DJGPP
> throughout, than to try compiling DJGPP with MSVC (which btw still
> doesn't solve your problem of compiling your front 
> 
> 
> > It seems the fastest way to get this accomplished is with the Cygnus GNUPro
> > package.  I'm sending them an e-mail asking for more information . . .  I
> > would be interrested in your experiences (if any) with their port of the
> > sources.
> 
> I don't have any real experience with the Cygnus port.  From what I've
> heard, it seems that it is still in beta phase, not something you can
> use as a ready production environment.
>