From: jont@harlequin.co.uk (Jon Thackray) Subject: cygwin.dll 17 Jan 1997 03:49:54 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <8564.9701171120.cygnus.gnu-win32@dedekind.cam.harlequin.co.uk> References: Original-To: "'gnu-win32@cygnus.com'" In-Reply-To: Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com James Osburn writes: > My two bits on the cygwin.dll and cygnus in general. > > First the cygwin.dll is to large It should not > contain the unix to win32 interface. Second, there should > be a facility to compile statically and to separate the > C runtime and C++ runtimes into seperate dlls and statically > linkable libs. The task of porting all the gnu unix to win32 > via the gcc should be dropped. It poisons an otherwise > very good idea: gcc for win32. Well I have to disagree with this. Given that I am developing software for both Win32 and Unix, the fact that many other unix tools are ported is an excellent and worthwhile objective IMHO. Specifically I require make (neither Unix nor Win32 provide native makes as good as gnu make), and therefore sh, and a host of other tools to be called by make. Strangely, gcc is one of the tools I don't use, although it may be that it has now improved sufficiently (debugger support, various bugs fixed, support for MS gratuitous C extensions etc) that I could now use it. -- Dr. Jon Thackray jont@harlqn.co.uk 44 1223 872522 (voice) Harlequin Ltd. 44 1223 873873 (fax) Barrington Hall Barrington Cambridge CB2 5RG England - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".