From: gunther DOT ebert AT ixos-leipzig DOT de (Gunther Ebert) Subject: Re: Compiling "pure" windows programs 6 Dec 1996 03:37:48 -0800 Sender: daemon AT cygnus DOT com Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <32A68899.3365.cygnus.gnu-win32@ixos-leipzig.de> References: <32A66351 DOT 7F71 AT viman DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (WinNT; I) Original-To: Bala Parthasarathy Original-Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Bala Parthasarathy wrote: > > I've used the gnu-win32 (b16) to port my Unix program to NT and 95 > and it works beautifully (they're all console apps) > > As the next step, I'd like to port some of the Windows programs (that > display a window) that I compiled under MSVC to work with gnu-win32 > environment (my main motivation is to use gnu make) but I'm not having > much joy here. > > The FAQ recommends that I download the Win32 API Package (Scott > Christley) but I could not get it built on the NT machine - the > configure seemed to be too Unixy. > > Is there any way to use the header file and import libraries from > MSVC? (Hope this is not an incredibly dumb question!) Does the Windows > SDK have these files? > > Obviously, a lot of people must have done this, and it'll be a big help > for me and other newbies to have a step-by-step of how to do this. > > Please send me email and I'll summarize the response. > Check out http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/mingw32-download.html, You will find an interface for using crtdll.dll (the standard C library which is included in Windows NT and Windows 95) there. Using this package you will get most of the MSVC stuff compiled. Gunther - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".