Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/01/23/15:27:06
Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 01:21:47PM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >David Feustel wrote:
> >>MKS is now offering a package of header files and dlls that permit
> >>compilation of Unix software with VS 6. I only found out about this
> >>package a few days ago so I have no experience with it. MKS offers a
> >>30-day evaluation of the software on CDROM.
> >>
> >>See http://www.mks.com
> >
> >This has nothing at all to do with Cygwin. Please don't advertise
> >proprietary software on this list. If you want to continue to enjoy
> >the Cygwin list please take my advice.
>
> That's a little harsh, Earnie. This was a direct request to a query.
> It's actually of some interest to us here, too, since if MKS can do
> this that means we can too.
>
Ok, sufficiently put back in my place. As far as our being able to do
that too, wouldn't that just require building Cygwin with VC++?
If you're able to build Cygwin with VC++ then the discrepancy of objects
disappear and you should be able to build POSIX programs with the Cygwin
runtime & VC++. IIRC, newlib already builds with VC++. Given this, I
didn't see how the MKS 30 day free trial was worth mentioning and thus
my harshness.
Sorry,
Earnie.
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