From:	"deckerben" <bdeck AT lycos DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject:	Re: DJGPP vs Cygwin
Date:	Thu, 7 Nov 2002 00:10:58 +0100
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"CBFalconer" <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com> wrote in message
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> I have been using Cygwin to check portability, and recently tried
> an experiment.  I compiled and run the same, largely compute
> bound, program on both systems and timed their execution.  Both
> were compiled with "gcc -W -Wall -O2 -ansi -pedantic -gstabs+",
> using gcc 3.1 on DJGPP, and gcc 3.2 on Cygwin.  Both on the
> identical machine, running W98.


IMHO the only great advantage to Cygwin is XWindows. I really tried my best
to take a crack at the the old xlibemu library for DJGPP, but the GRX v1
dependencies pose more of a challenge than I am fit for.

If someone is looking for a really MEANINGFUL DJGPP PROJECT, and is really
fit with GRX, I would recommend porting xlibemu over to GRX v2.

I use Java for GUI apps.

DJGPP is my sole C console platform, and it will remain so so long as DJGPP
continues it's brilliant backward-port of modern GNU infrastructure to
robust 32-bit DPMI.

Ben

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