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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 12:32:29 -0700
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: cygwin, emacs, mozilla
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Tomas,

At 12:15 2002-10-24, Thomas L Roche wrote:
>Chris Lott <chris AT chrislott DOT org> 10/24/2002 02:26 PM
>
>...
>
> > How well does Mozilla run on Cygwin
>
>That I don't know, but Moz says you can build Moz with Cygwin: see
>
>http://www.mozilla.org/build/win32.html

Intriguing, but I don't think this produces a Cygwin binary. From the "GNU 
Tools for Microsoft Windows (the cygwin toolkit)" section of that page:

"Cygwin is a UNIX-like environment for Windows... Mozilla uses a developer 
set of cygwin packages... These include gawk, make and zip utilities, and 
optionally cygwin perl. GCC is _not_ used and does not need to be installed."

[ Emphasis and editing mine, of course. ]

Note especially the last sentence. I believe this is intended for people 
who don't want to use the VisualC++ IDE, but I assume that since GCC is not 
used the VisualC++ compiler is and thus the end result is identical to that 
built with Visual C++.

Am I misinterpreting that?

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


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