From: epa AT datcon DOT co DOT uk (Ed Avis)
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Subject: Re: Cygnus win32 Question
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 15:27:36 GMT
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On Mon, 23 Feb 1998 10:40:18 +0100 (MET), Olivier Perron
<perron AT art DOT alcatel DOT fr> wrote:

>Cygnus has effectively a win32 port of gcc wich is able to make win32
>applications. I don't know more than this.

There's the GNU-Win32 project, which is to port Unix stuff to the
"cygwin32 API".  This API is a POSIX layer on top of Win32.  Because
all apps that use this API must link with the cygwin32 DLL, they
automatically fall under the GPL.  Unlike MS's POSIX subsystem, you
can mix and match POSIX and Win32 calls.  You can download gcc,
fileutils, textutils, bash, and a whole lot of other stuff, even X
client libraries to port X apps to Win32.  Unfortunately it's all beta
quality as yet.

There is an offshoot called "Minimalist GNU-Win32" (mingw32) which
lets you link with the standard Windows crtdll.dll, and hence not have
to GPL whatever you compile.  Egcs has been ported to mingw32.

Go to <http://www.cygnus.com/gnu-win32> and follow the links.

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Ed Avis