From:	Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject:	Re: DJGPP & CGI
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On Tue, 21 Mar 2000 12:03:43 -0700, Damon Hogan
<damonh AT pgmincorporated DOT com> wrote:

>Download the entire ming32 version (win32) version of GCC.

http://www.mingw.org/
It's still about an order of magnitude smaller than even a _service_
_pack_ for Microsoft Visual C++.

>Use that to compile the test.c cgi program attached.  So GCC  Mingw32
>(Win32) CGI works fine.
>
>I still cannot get DJGPP to work with CGI I presume because it is
>protected mode and apache is not or something like that.

PM is not the issue; the issue is that programs that call
DOS functions run in their own virtual machine, and it's
very difficult for a pipe to work between VMs.

>So in short you can use djgpp for all your development but just
>switch to ming32 to make a final compile on your CGI's.

Good idea, especially now that the POSIX libc in djdev has been
ported to MinGW.

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