Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
Message-ID: <3A9FB1E6.FDE781B5@home.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 09:44:54 -0500
From: "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit AT home DOT com>
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U)
X-Accept-Language: en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Cygwin General MailList <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: What's such a big deal about MSVC
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

I see several packages, GTK+/Win32 being on my mind at the moment, for
which the author advises they _must_ be compiled with MSVC.  Part of the
reason, evidently is some MSVC????.DLL that gets included.

So, what's the trick?  What funny backdoor is M$ exploiting with this?
In other words, what would it take to allow Cygwin to provide whatever
functionality this beast is giving?

--
David A. Cobb, The Superbiskit !
Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate, All around nice guy.
Get my PGP key at
:<http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=superbiskit>
Fingerprint=0x{6E3E DB8C 2E8C 4248 62B2  FE29 08EE CF0A 3629 E954}
"By God's Grace I am a Christian man, by my actions a great sinner."
--The Way of a Pilgrim, R. M. French [tr.]
<---.----!----.----!----.----!----.----!----.----!----.----!----.---->



--
Want to unsubscribe from this list?
Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple