From: banders AT ECD DOT Rockwell DOT COM (Bartlee A. Anderson) Subject: Re: Cygwin32 Newbie (NBY) 6 Feb 1998 19:42:50 -0800 Message-ID: <34DB89BA.7A0D.cygnus.gnu-win32@switch.rockwell.com> References: <19980206132912 DOT 1943 DOT qmail AT hotmail DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Earnie Boyd Cc: nigels AT eisa DOT net DOT au, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Earnie Boyd wrote: > > Hi Nigel, > > Check out the URL pointers I have listed below my signature. > > Remember that this is beta software, and that the Cygnus approach is to > emulate enough of Unix to allow for porting of Unix software to Win32 > without having to re-program. > > Others have taken the Cygnus work and removed the Unix layer. This > version run faster as it doesn't emulate the Unix environment. However, > no BASH as yet :(. YES! Who out there is smart and kind enough to bash bash into compiling with mingw32. I know I would be at it for a looooooong time. Anyone smarter up to it? I just don't want to have to cross compile from cygwin to mingw ;) Bart > > For text modes, this is user settable, check the mail archives for lots > of discussion on text=binary vs text!=binary. > > >Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1998 01:05:08 +1100 > >To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com > >From: Nigel Stewart > >Subject: Cygwin32 Newbie > > > > > >I'm writing this to say g'day, and pose some newbie type questions. > >If you've got better things to do than answers these, please ignore.. > ;) > > > >I downloaded cdk.exe yesterday, and been doing some fiddling... > > > >1. I get the impression that gcc is slower than the djgpp > > binary. Also, bash can be somewhat unresponsive and > > sometimes when I type I get funny characters, as if a > > buffer is overflowing somewhere. Are these issues related > > to cygwin32, my slow 486 machine, win95, or something else? > > > >2. Is there somewhere I could get binaries for X11 by ftp? > > I have the feeling that it would take a very long time to > > compile on my box. > > > >3. Is it possible to cross-compile between djgpp, cygwin32 and/or > > Linux, in theory or practice? > > > >4. Does someone have a joe binary handy? ( I love unix, but not vi! ;) > > > >5. What is the proposed text/binary behavior for cygwin32? > > I expected unix "binary as default", but found the opposite for > > fopen, open, setmode, etc... > > > >Thanks in advance... > > > >Nigel Stewart > > > > > >-- > >Nigel Stewart, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia > >Email: nigel AT anon DOT nymserver DOT com (Ask me for PGP key.) > > > > > >- > >For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message > to > >"gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". > > > > - \\||// > ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- > -earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com- > ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- > > Check out these great gnu-win32 related sites: > ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/latest/ (ftp site) > http://www.cygnus.com/pubs/gnupro/ (Comercial Page) > http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/ (Project Page) > http://www.cygnus.com/ml/gnu-win32 (Mail Archives) > http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/winhelp-man-pages/ (HTML Man Pages) > http://www.lexa.ru/sos (Sergey Okhapkin) > ftp://www.lexa.ru/pub/domestic/sos/ (Sergey's ftp site) > http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/gcc.html (Colin Peters) > http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ (Mumit Khan) > http://gnu-win32.paranoia.ru (Chuck Bogorad's ports) > ftp://ftp.deninc.com/pub (Den Internet Services - US mirror and ports) > http://www.bestweb.net/~aka/gnu-win32/ (GNU-Win32 Bash Configuration) > http://rcw.home.ml.org/ (Rob Warner - software ports) > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > - > For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to > "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".