Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3DB9866D.80502@indirect.com> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 10:59:09 -0700 From: "Michael F. March" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lapo Luchini CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin, emacs, mozilla References: <5.1.0.14.2.20021024122730.029dac50@pop3.cris.com> <3DB85943.D33D8954@yahoo.com> <3DB8EBC7.5050602@lapo.it> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20021024122730.029dac50@pop3.cris.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > >> I am amazed that, considering the warm fuzzy loving relationship >> between Microsoft and Netscape/Mozilla, they continue to use VC. I >> would expect them to lean over backwards to move over to gcc. >> > They are indeed, but converting the big build process from VC to gcc > is not so easy an operation ^_^ > > http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134113 > > BTW: of course they would like some help ;-) > Maybe the first step would be to get Mozilla to compile under Cygwin using X instead of using all the Windows APIs directly (like what they are trying to do in that Bugzilla ticket above.) In fact, getting Evolution and Mozilla working under XFree86/Cygwin would be two worth while efforts. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/