Delivered-To: listarch-cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <36C37262.BA812023@uni-duesseldorf.de> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 01:14:26 +0100 From: Stipe Tolj Organization: Department of Economical Computer Science, University of Cologne, Germany X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [de]C-NECCK (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Heller CC: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: cygwin for Alpha NT / shared libs like Interix References: <36C2D436 DOT 6BA2A041 AT acm DOT org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > First of all: > Has anybody taken a look at Interix/OpenNT recently ? They've got > shared-lib support a la unix nowadays - but still BETA - with their > adaption of GNU binutils + gcc for Intel/Alpha NT.(If I understand > their web pages correctly) They are using ELF for this and the > adapted sources should be on their ftp. But I don't know how they'e > implemented the ld.so ... > Anyone working on something similiar ?? > > Is anyone working on porting the cygwin-20.1 to Alpha/NT ? > cygwin-b19 has been ported by someone to Alpha/NT and is > available from ftp://ftp.guiduck.com as a zip-file. > If yes, I'd like to help ; if not, I'm starting today . sorry, I'm not aware of any efforts taken to support the Alpha processors explicitly for NT. Is their really such a great difference for cygwin b20.1 if NT is hosted on an i586 or Alpha based platform? Anyway I would be very interested in your work towards this goal. Regards, Stipe -- Stipe Tolj Cygwin Porting Project -- "We build UNIX on top of Windows" http://www.student.uni-koeln.de/cygwin/ Department of Economical Computer Science University of Cologne, Germany