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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Marc Esipovich" <marc AT corky DOT net>, <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
References: <20000816015112 DOT B19665 AT marcellos DOT corky DOT net>
Subject: Re: What's the status of cygwin on NT device drivers?
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 09:01:51 +1000
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You might look at the toolkit reactos (www.reactos.com) is using. They are
building a open source binary compatible windows NT environment.. and they
are building device drivers now. They are using GCC and other gnu tools.

Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc Esipovich" <marc AT corky DOT net>
To: <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 8:51 AM
Subject: What's the status of cygwin on NT device drivers?


> Hi,
>
> I would like very much to avoid using MSVC or similar packages
> to make an NT device driver. paying cygnus is way better than paying MS :)
>
> I've  skimmed through the lists, and found some old (1999) notes
> about cygwin already supporting native PE's, but not __fastcall, what
> has changed since then?
>
> So, who has some updated info for me on building them pesky drivers
> w/ the help of that butt-ugly NT DDK?
>
> It needn't be a comlex driver,  basically hooking some syscalls and
> talking to a userland app. maybe even write a device which emulates /dev
> so no changes will be needed in my Unixified userland code. ;)
>
> I'd also be glad to land a hand to those with things in progress
> concerning this issue.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>  bye,
> Marc.
>
>  P.S, Please CC to me as I'm not subscribed to the list.
>
> --
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