From: weiqigao@crl.com ("Weiqi Gao") Subject: Re: new user to cygwin32... 2 Mar 1997 20:33:53 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199703030311.AA02540.cygnus.gnu-win32@mail.crl.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: X-Msmail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Peter Amstutz wrote: >Hello all. I just recently downloaded & installed the full distribution of >cygwin32 (all 40 megs of it!) with the intent of learning something about >windows programming. From what I have seen, this library is largly intened >for porting unix/gnu software to a windows environment, but how suitable is >it for straight windows programming? I bought the book Programming Windows >95 (by Charles Petzold) and the examples are designed to work with MS Visual >C++. Are there any particular things I should watch out for in compiling >the VC++ programs under gcc? (other than re-writing all the makefiles...) > >Also, it seems that the standard set of cygwin32 header files are missing >the SND_* macros... If you are already familiar with the GNU C/C++ environment, then go ahead and use cygwin32. Otherwise use Microsoft Visual C++. Cygwin32 should be able to compile all the examples of the book, but figuring out how is going to be a challenge, as documentations of the tools are at best sketchy. -- Weiqi Gao weiqigao@crl.com - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".