Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:45:47 +0100 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Reply-To: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere Message-ID: <195249577573.20040119124547@familiehaase.de> To: "Alvyn Liang" CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Unimplemented ANSI C library and UNIX function calls?? In-Reply-To: <005f01c3de05$78a8b170$1701a8c0@Alvyn> References: <005f01c3de05$78a8b170$1701a8c0@Alvyn> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hello Alvyn, you wrote: > Wish this mail does not go into a wrong account. I am a new user of this > mailing list. Please forgive me if I make any mistake. Thanks. > I browsed the FAQ and raised a question, "Are the unimplemented ANSI C > library functions important for us?" > After the installation of Cygwin, it has been quite a while (almost a year) > for me using Cygwin PERL. It's helped me complete several jobs of my > project. Although it helps me a lot, I am still using VC++ for the programs > require OpenGL visualizations. Now I come into a dilemma of whether I should > lean onto Cygwin for my entire project with C/C++ and GCC in Cygwin, or I > should keep my pace on VC++. > This morning, I resolved several problems by looking into the FAQ of Cygwin > and had myself compiled and successfully executed a basic GUI code provided > by the documentation of Cygwin website. Somehow I obtained a little > confidence of using GCC afterward, but I am still wondering if there are so > many unimplemented ANSI C functions, does that mean there might be certain > amount of jobs are unfeasible for Cygwin C compiler. The C library used is newlib, you may contribute unimplemented functions since it is open source too. > I will use C/C++ processing numerical optimizations joint with OpenGL > visualization, and some GUI interfaces probably. Can someone help answering > my question, whether it is optimistic to do my work on Cygwin? GUI is kind of universal. You may use X which is included in the distribution, or you need to install your own toolkit like GTK+ or QT which are not included in the distribution, but there are binaries available ( http://cygnome.sf.net & http://kde-cygwin.sf.net ). > And again, can I ask a more stupid question "Is C++ library provided in > Cygwin?" There is libstdc++ included in the gcc-g++ package and the MinGW version is in the gcc-g++-mingw package. Cygwin itself is written in C++. Gerrit -- =^..^= http://nyckelpiga.de/donate.html -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/