From: youngd@cirrusnet.com (Darren Young) Subject: Re: OpenNT & GNU-Win32 Comparison? 22 Jul 1997 08:11:08 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: youngd@downtown Original-To: Andreas Bischoff Original-cc: pyeh@jungfrau.usc.edu, gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-Reply-To: <199707212348.QAA00805@ws4.ise.com> Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com I found this also to be the case. I really didn't want to have to use MSVC to port code. ============================================================ == Darren Young == Cirrus Technologies, Inc. == == youngd@cirrusnet.com == info@cirrusnet.net == == www.cirrusnet.com/~youngd == www.cirrusnet.net == ============================================================ == And God said, "Let there be Quake." == ============================================================ On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Andreas Bischoff wrote: > Hi Peter, > > > > > Hi, > > > > Has anyone done any comparison between OpenNT by Softway and GNU-Win32? If > > you know any information or have done a comparison, please let me know the > > result. It seems that they are competing products. Of course, OpenNT is a > > commercial product which means it costs money. However, I believe that > > OpenNT has a better develop environment with a more complete set of tools. > > This is what I understand base on the information on the web. If you know > > anything more or use it before, please let me know. Thank you in advance. > > > > --Peter > > > > - > > I didn't do a highly sophisticated comparison, but did check out the > 30 day demo. > > Turned out that I couldn't do much with it. > OpenNT requires that you have MSVC installed and does not support C++ > so far. Also, I need Fortran, which is not supported. > > I've tried to compile a couple of standard utilities, started with tcl, > but the autoconfigure didn't work out. > > Tried also to get gcc/g++ compiled but without much luck, at which point > I didn't spend any more time with it. > Also, the bundled X server is the one from Netmanage, which didn't impress me > either. > > The usage of MSVC creates a mess in my opinion. > They tried to create a wrapper, which converts unix like path names to > windoze like ones. At least in my case this didn't seem to work very well. > > I still think the idea of having a working POSIX subsytem is a good one > but I'd rather wait for the next release. > > They promised to put tcl/tk and gcc on their web side. Didn't check recently. > > > Regards, > > Andreas > - > For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to > "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help". > - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".