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From: "Curtis, Craig M." <curtis_c AT lxe DOT com>
To: "'djgpp AT delorie DOT com'" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>,
        "'myknees AT aol DOT com'"
	 <myknees AT aol DOT com>
Subject: RE: RsxNt I HATE WINDOWS
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 07:10:28 -0400
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I am just curious why you prefer egcs?  

Thanks,
Craig Curtis

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>From: 	myknees AT aol DOT com[SMTP:myknees AT aol DOT com]
>Sent: 	Sunday, September 27, 1998 6:41 PM
>To: 	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
>Subject: 	Re: RsxNt I HATE WINDOWS
>
>
>In article <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 980927130444 DOT 25393N-100000 AT is>, Eli Zaretskii
><eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> writes:
>
>>On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, bowman wrote:
>>
>>> One thing I did get
>>> burned on: I believe it is 'autoconf' that goes looking for a shell in
>>> /bin. The Cygwin bash didn't seem to want to play well with the djgpp
>>> 'sed', IIRC.
>>
>>The Cygnus ports don't do anything to make the life of a Windows
>>programmer easier wrt the Unix-style paths.  The installation
>>instructions explicitly tell to make sure /bin and /tmp exist on every
>>drive on your system (it remains unclear how would you pull such
>>tricks on networked drives ;-), and that sh.exe is copied to every
>>such /bin directory.
>
>I tend to agree with Eli Z. here.  Further, I haven't found the
>UNIX-emulation
>stuff to be very helpful...in fact, it is downright buggy and un-helpful. 
>There are others who have noticed the problem, and there is something called
>MINGWIN that addresses it (more below.)
>
>Regarding having Cygwin and djgpp on one computer, that is entirely possible
>given a good understanding of how the DOS environment interacts with each
>platform.
>
>An optimal solution for Windows programming with free software seems to be
>this:
>the MINGWIN version of the Cygwin programming platform with the egcs compiler
>at the core.  Here are some URLs:
>
>Cygwin:
>www.cygnus.com/
>MINGWIN:
>http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/gcc.html
>egcs:
>http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/egcs.html
>wxWindows:
>http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/
>
>People have even compiled the free C++ cross-platform library, wxWindows
>using
>this setup.  All of these tools are developing rapidly, but they have only
>gotten to the point of being usable in conjunction very recently.  
>
>--Ed (Myknees)
>