Mail Archives: cygwin/1996/10/28/11:49:46
Fabio Somenzi wrote:
> ->If the answer to the above question is "no", then would anybody be
> ->interested if I tried to get it set up and wrote a tiny FAQ about it?
> ->(In essence, would anybody have a decent place to stash a FAQ if I wrote
> ->it?)
>
> The FAQ may be a good idea. Maybe Cygnus is the right place. Or you can set
> it up at your site, and have people rely on search engines.
>
> Fabio
You know, this is the weird thing about the Cygnus gnu-win32: many of
the frequently found GNU packages (emacs, TeX) are already implemented,
but not under the Cygnus framework, I imagine because gnu-win32 is still
so young. With the EMX (gnu-OS/2) stuff, most all the common GNU
programs were all done with EMX. I was also reading on the web pages
about a couple other attempts at UNIX-Win32 translations. There are
supposedly two different implementations of TeX for Win32 and neither is
done via Cygnus gnu-win32.
Of course, the Cygnus version seems the most valid of an approach since
the present goal is porting the GCC compiler which is at the heart of
the GNU effort.
So if I were to write up a FAQ about installation, etc. of mikTeX and
NTemacs (and most of all, I'd like to put together a good thorough FAQ
for getting, installing, and running the GCC compiler) where would be
the best place to have it posted?
I guess while I'm at it, does anyone know of documentation for the GCC
stuff? I went to the ftp location, installed one.zip through five.zip,
set my path to point to the main bin directory, set the GCC_EXEC_PREFIX
variable, ran "gcc -o hello.exe hello.cc -lstdc++ -I/cygnus/include/g++"
got a file HELLO.EXE created, tried to run the program, and got some
error about how NT couldn't run the executable. I hear of demo programs
to compile, but I can't find any examples in the one.zip - five.zip
archives.
A FAQ on installing and testing GCC might be important if we want to
attract people to the gnu-win32 effort. I'm willing to write (as soon
as I can figure it all out) if there's anyplace to post.
Murray Todd Williams
Colorado State University
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