Date:	Tue, 11 Jan 2000 15:17:36 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Pawel Stolowski <yogin AT polbox DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: To DJGPP authors: do you consider native win support?
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On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Pawel Stolowski wrote:

> Do the authors of DJGPP consider including built-in support for creating
> windows applications in the future?

I'm not aware of any such effort at this time.

> It would be good to have it all
> together in one package (no problems with choosing the right add-on).

There is only one add-on to DJGPP for making Windows programs:
RSXNTDJ.  If it lacks some features or has some bugs, IMHO it is
better to work with RSXNTDJ author on improving it than to invent yet
another wheel.

The other free solutions to building Windows programs are not add-ons,
they are different ports of GCC (Cygwin and Mingw) or an entirely
different compiler (Lcc-win).

> Maybe the djgpp-, rsxdj-,
> mingw- makers could join their forces to create one compiler for both
> dos & windows?

From past discussions, it seems like the most annoying problem with
developing Windows programs is not the compiler (of which there are
several alternatives to choose from), but rather the lack of
high-quality ports of the other development tools: debuggers, Info,
Less, Fileutils, Textutils, Diff, Patch, and all the rest of the happy
bunch in v2gnu.  If someone is looking for an area where he/she can
make a lot of difference, I'd suggest to try to fill this gap.  If you
use the DJGPP port as a starting point, you will find that most of the
work is already done.

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