From: "A.Appleyard" <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>
To: DJGPP AT SUN DOT SOE DOT CLARKSON DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 11:47:30 GMT
Subject: Gnu C under Windows?

I wrote:-
> How is the new (GO32-less) djgpp likely to change matters?
> When are these two problems that you mention, likely to be solved?
> How is the arrival of Windows 95 / etc likely to change matters?

dj AT delorie DOT mv DOT com (DJ Delorie) replied:-
> With the absense of the extender, all the issues for itnerfacing with
> Windows reside in the program itself - it's just a plain DPMI program. In
> theory, with the right libraries and linker (or executable converter), you
> could make a pure Win32 application.

And Windows 3.1 please: a great lot of people still have Windows 3.1 .

> The catch is that we don't have the right libraries and executable
> converter, nor do we have a resource compiler (which isn't as big a deal).

How long would it likely take for someone who knows more about Windows than I
do, to write the required routines etc? I have a copy of a book "Windows 3.1
Programmer's Reference" by James W.McCord (ISBN 0-88022-787-7, publ. 1992 by
Que Corporation, page numbers up to 1354), which describes at great length how
to call a great lot of the routines needed to call the various things that
happen in Windows.