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From: kunst AT prl DOT philips DOT nl (Pieter Kunst)
Subject: Re: Idea: DJGPP w/windows...
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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 14:42:49 GMT
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In article <40r59l$1h7l AT thebes DOT waikato DOT ac DOT nz> jpg AT waikato DOT ac DOT nz writes:
>
> While I was trying to sleep last night I began to think 
> about how you could use the 
> windows API from DJGPP DPMI programs in either windows or win 95.  
> Here's The idea I came up with.

[stuff deleted]

>Thoughts?  Ideas?  Comments?  Problems?


Somebody already did a lot of work on this!
If you want to use DJGPP to write MS-Windows programs, have a look at:

  ftp://ftp.uni-bielefeld.de/pub/systems/msdos/misc

Here you'll find the following files:

-rw-r--r--   2 hrz          493 Feb  9  1994 rsxwdk1.txt
-rw-r--r--   2 hrz       199251 Feb  9  1994 rsxwdk1.zip
-rw-r--r--   2 hrz          707 Feb 22  1994 rsxwin2a.txt
-rw-r--r--   2 hrz        59288 Feb 22  1994 rsxwin2a.zip
-rw-r--r--   1 hrz       222388 Jun 22  1994 autosc20.zip
-rw-r--r--   2 hrz         2238 Dec 13  1994 dpmigcc5.txt
-rw-r--r--   2 hrz       466349 Dec 13  1994 dpmigcc5.zip
-rw-r--r--   2 hrz         1367 Jan 25  1995 rsxwdk2.txt
-rw-r--r--   2 hrz       283090 Jan 25  1995 rsxwdk2b.zip
-rw-r--r--   2 hrz       301360 Jan 25  1995 rsxwdk2s.zip
-rw-r--r--   2 hrz         1048 Apr 27 13:57 rsxwin3.txt
-rw-r--r--   2 hrz        81853 Apr 27 13:57 rsxwin3.zip

The file 'rsxwdk2.txt' (see below) contains the info you're looking for.

Pieter.


-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
RSXWDK - building 32bit Windows apps with GNU-C/C++ for MS-Windows 3.1	 Jan 95
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Vendor Information:

  There are two Zip files
	RSXWDK2b.ZIP:	rsxwdk binaries, libraries, include and help files
	RSXWDK2s.ZIP:	rsxwdk library source files

  Possible directories:
	emx-0.9a    contrib dircetory
	djgpp	    contrib directory
	\win3\programr

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

RSXWDK Copyright (c) by Rainer Schnitker 1994,1995
    For more information extract "\rsxwdk\doc\rsxwdk.hlp" in rsxwdk2b.zip

email to:
    rainer AT mathematik DOT uni-bielefeld DOT de

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The RSX Window Development Kit (release 2) contains:

    RSXW32.EXE (Windows Extender) to run 32bit GNU-C Windows 3.1 programs
    Include files for GNU-C to use 16-bit headers
    32-bit Windows libraries for the EMX compiler
    32-bit Windows libraries for the DJGPP compiler

Software Requirements:
    - MS-Windows 3.1
    - RC.EXE, the resource compiler
    - Windows.h (SDK 3.1) from a 16bit Compiler
    - GNU-C compiler
      a) EMX 0.8-0.9
      b) DJGPP 1.11-1.12 (coff format)