From:	haynes AT pwrh DOT com (Dan Haynes)
Subject:	RE: How do I avoid buying MSVC++?
24 Dec 1998 09:30:14 -0800 :
Message-ID:	<007d01be2f54$f8b56b70$0101010a.cygnus.gnu-win32@impasse>
References:	<00de01be2eb5$f3921cf0$016464c0 AT susato DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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To:	"Max Hadley" <max AT susato DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>,
	"Cygwin mailing list" <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>

If you are just looking for Win32 programming (not porting Unix apps), have
you looked at LCC for Win32? The mailing list is lcc AT cs DOT princeton DOT edu. LCC
is just a compiler, not a complete Unix-like environment like Cygwin - but
there is a very good quality Win32 version of LCC  that is actively being
developed and may suit your purposes.

Regards,

  Dan Haynes

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com [mailto:owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com]On
> Behalf Of Max Hadley
> Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 1998 1:50 PM
> To: Cygwin mailing list
> Subject: How do I avoid buying MSVC++?
>
>
> Dear Cygwin list,
>
> After much messing around, involving a complete new second installation
> of Windows NT, I *think* I have got b20.1 installed. Cygnus, it's only
> *your* Installshield installer that fails every time on my original NT.
> It would be nice if there was a text file or SOMETHING that spells out
> exactly what the installer does in the registry & environment, as I had
> to spelunk it out of one registry & edit it into the other. Not
> pleasant.
>
> I can build a 'hello world' console application happily.
>
> Now I need to build win32 API code, supplied by a third party, to drive
> a PCI card in the PC. Here is my makefile (I'm using MKS make, not GNU):
>
> HEADERS := windecl.h
> SOURCES :=  ntcdemo.c
> OBJECTS := $(SOURCES:db:+"$(O)")
> LIBRARIES := ntgpib.lib
>
> CFLAGS += -g -pedantic -Wall -mwindows
>
> ntcdemo.exe : $(OBJECTS) $(LIBRARIES)
>
> .PRECIOUS $(OBJECTS) : $(HEADERS)
>
> BTW my default value of CFLAGS is null. This generates a bunch of lines
> like this (ellipses mark deletions):
>
> susato[230] $ make
> gcc  -o ntcdemo.exe ntcdemo.o ntgpib.lib
> //E/cygwin/cygwin-b20/H-i586-cygwin32/i586-cygwin32/bin/ld:
> ntgpib.lib(NTGPIB.dll): warning: ignoring duplicate section `.text'
> //E/cygwin/cygwin-b20/H-i586-cygwin32/i586-cygwin32/bin/ld:
> ntgpib.lib(NTGPIB.dll): warning: ignoring duplicate section `.idata$5'
> ...
> ...
> ntcdemo.o: In function `WinMain':
> //E/Users/max/progs/WAVstuff/temp/ntcdemo.c:89: undefined reference to
> `LoadCursorA AT 8'
> //E/Users/max/progs/WAVstuff/temp/ntcdemo.c:90: undefined reference to
> `GetStockObject AT 4'
> //E/Users/max/progs/WAVstuff/temp/ntcdemo.c:93: undefined reference to
> `RegisterClassA AT 4'
> //E/Users/max/progs/WAVstuff/temp/ntcdemo.c:97: undefined reference to
> `GetSystemMetrics AT 4'
> ...
> ...
> ntcdemo.o: In function `MainMessageHandler':
> //E/Users/max/progs/WAVstuff/temp/ntcdemo.c:166: undefined reference to
> `GetDC AT 4'
> //E/Users/max/progs/WAVstuff/temp/ntcdemo.c:167: undefined reference to
> `GetStockObject AT 4'
> //E/Users/max/progs/WAVstuff/temp/ntcdemo.c:168: undefined reference to
> `SelectObject AT 8'
> //E/Users/max/progs/WAVstuff/temp/ntcdemo.c:169: undefined reference to
> `GetTextMetricsA AT 8'
> ...
> ...
> //E/Users/max/progs/WAVstuff/temp/ntcdemo.c:246: undefined reference to
> `DefWindowProcA AT 16'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: Error code 1
> susato[231] $
>
> So what is going wrong? I assume some windows libraries are not getting
> linked, but how do I find out which? Why all the duplicate sections
> warnings from the board vendor's library?
>
> Assuming this code works with MSVC++ (& I have no reason to assume it
> doesn't) is it possible to make it work with CYGWIN? Or do I have to get
> MSVC++ to use this card I have just bought.
>
> Thanks in advance, and Merry Christmas
>
> Max Hadley
>
>
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