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Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 12:25:53 -0700
From: farnaz <farnaz AT itginc DOT com>
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To: Chris Faylor <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: Re: poring GNU C++ to NT
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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 have better luck than the out-of-date compiler that is distributed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

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