Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 03:07:56 -0800 (PST)
From: Samuel Vincent <svincent AT cs DOT sonoma DOT edu>
To: Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
cc: Leendert Combee <combee AT cambridge DOT scr DOT slb DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Adding Windows Support?
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On Sat, 9 Nov 1996, Mark Habersack wrote:

> Let's hope it won't take too long...

Well, I've got Visual C++ 4.0 with all the headers and everything.
I'd love to give it a whack, but I'm not sure how I would go about doing
so.  I'm afraid adding DLL support to DJGPP would be out of my league.  To
be a true win32 compiler, one would have to be able to handle dll's in the
linking stage along with being able to target to a DLL.  The switch
between object code formats would make things difficult.  I would vote to
create a whole new project such as DJGPP-Win32, or something similar.  We
could then work exclusively in microsoft's object format.  If you want DOS
+ DPMI, use DJGPP (A Great Package!), if you want win32 functionality, use
DJGPP-Win32.  (Now if we wanted more than the standard console library
functions and so didn't use DJ's libraries, and DJ didn't want to work
on this package, one wouldn't have to call it DJGPP at all, but that's
beyond the scope of actually creating the thing...)

Who would be interested in this attempt?  The difference between this and
gnu-win32 would be libraries that aren't GPL'd.  We could distribute it as
DJGPP is done, with our own library functions, making it free to use for
commercial as well as other projects.

Who wants to volunteer to help?  If noone, it wont happen.

-Sam