From: noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer) Subject: Re: Alpha NT port 18 Sep 1998 16:18:54 -0700 Message-ID: <19980918160119.19352.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@cygnus.com> References: <85256683 DOT 007A41FF DOT 00 AT vality DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: dpd AT vality DOT com Cc: cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 06:47:05PM -0400, dpd AT vality DOT com wrote: > > I'm looking into adding Alpha NT support to the toolset [...] > a partially functional toolset that includes a compiler > (ftp://guiduck.com/gcc-alpha.zip), both of which appear to be based on the > B17.5 dll; unfortunately, no sources are availiable [...] > Denis DerSarkisian > dpd AT vality DOT com The person you should talk to about the guiduck stuff is Bob Meader . He has done a lot of generic Alpha NT support which should be useful, although it still needs to be integrated into the FSF sources and EGCS. He built an old version of Cygwin32 with VC++ because gcc wasn't in a good enough state yet and that's the version that's on the ftp site you mentioned. I believe gcc still needs more work before it will be able to cope with building Cygwin32 (and the current version of Cygwin32 will need some Alpha NT-specific stuff added). I would like to see Alpha NT support added to Cygwin32 (and to the tools). I would be glad to assist in integrating changes into the tools or Cygwin32. Best regards, -- Geoffrey Noer noer AT cygnus DOT com