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 Organization: ITG Inc.-The Future of Trading-http://www.itginc.com Message-Id: <377BC0C1.6810DF39@itginc.com> Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 12:25:53 -0700 From: farnaz X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.6 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Faylor Subject: Re: poring GNU C++ to NT References: <377B8E38 DOT 306CFFE6 AT itginc DOT com> <19990701152355 DOT B1292 AT cygnus DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit thanks! Chris Faylor wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 08:50:16AM -0700, farnaz wrote: > >We currently have our systems written in C++, and use GNU compiler > >to compile and run on Solaris. What is involved in converting > >our code to NT? Do we just compile on NT using cygwin products, > >and are ready to go? Do you have tools to run through the code > >and tell me what changes need to be made to the source code? > >I am particularly interested in something that tells me > >what needs to be changed, so I can come up with a time > >estimate for how long it takes to port the code. Is there > >such a tool? > > > >Please let me know. > > We don't have any tools like this but the goal of the cygwin > project is to make porting from UNIX to NT as easy as possible > so it is possible that you will be able to just build everything > on Windows. This is especially true if you are using a later > version of GCC on Solaris with similar featurs to whatever > compiler you're using on Windows. > > I would suggest that if you download the Cygwin full.exe release > from one of the locations pointed to by > > http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/ > > that you also search the pointers for Mumit Khan's site which has > an updated version of egcs/gcc. If you download that you'll probably > have better luck than the out-of-date compiler that is distributed > with Cygwin B20.1. > > -chris -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com