From: amstpi AT freenet DOT tlh DOT fl DOT us (Peter Amstutz) Subject: new user to cygwin32... 2 Mar 1997 15:25:45 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19970302225542.00674100.cygnus.gnu-win32@fn2.freenet.tlh.fl.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: amstpi AT fn2 DOT freenet DOT tlh DOT fl DOT us X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Original-To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Hello all. I just recently downloaded & installed the full distribution of cygwin32 (all 40 megs of it!) with the intent of learning something about windows programming. From what I have seen, this library is largly intened for porting unix/gnu software to a windows environment, but how suitable is it for straight windows programming? I bought the book Programming Windows 95 (by Charles Petzold) and the examples are designed to work with MS Visual C++. Are there any particular things I should watch out for in compiling the VC++ programs under gcc? (other than re-writing all the makefiles...) Also, it seems that the standard set of cygwin32 header files are missing the SND_* macros... thanx, ******************* The one and only ***************** ******************** Peter Amstutz ******************* ***** All around computer whiz kid and nice guy. ***** ************** amstpi AT freenet DOT tlh DOT fl DOT us ************** ************** has spoken! *********** - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".