From: khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu (Mumit Khan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Cygwin ?? Rsxntdj ??
Date: 26 Dec 1998 19:50:45 GMT
Organization: Center for X-ray Lithography, UW-Madison
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In article <368532AA DOT 85BA8AA0 AT cableol DOT co DOT uk>,
Allens  <djgpp AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
>8k is about the same as lcc-win32, which should be able to compile winallegro
>with a minimal amount of porting, if those dx headers are sorted properly.  
>I'm suprised at the MinG size, as it relies on crtdll.dll which provides the
>entire c runtime.  This seems very strange.

Not at all. The poster forgot to "strip" the binaries before comparing
the sizes. The other way is to use "-s" when linking the programs using 
gcc/c++/etc.

>Cygnus is covered by the GPL, or Berkely style licence I believe.

Cygnus is probably covered more by venture capitalists than the GPL ;-)
Cygwin is released under the GPL, not Berkeley style license; however,
there are components in the whole Cygwin distribution that are covered
by BSD style copyrights.

btw, someone mentioned a hefty Cygwin DLL; I see mine to be roughly 450k,
which IMO doesn't fit into the "hefty" category that well.

Both Cygwin and RSXNTDJ have pros and cons, and I would recommend taking
a close look at both before dismissing either.

Regards,
Mumit