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From: Robert Humphris <r DOT humphris AT indigo-avs DOT com>
To: "'djGpp list'" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: Win32 support for DJGPP
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 11:52:08 -0000
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I have been reading the discussion on this with some interest, as I know
that windows programming
is possible with Cygnus's port of the GNU compiler.  The simple way
would be for some brave soul to
take out the time to patch together the requisit libraries from Cygwin32
as well as the headers and what
ever...
I have my doubts wether this is worth while though,as the extra messing
around, and the overheads that
windows causes would mean that many will have to start at the base of a
very steep learning curve that
just for a nice gui front end seems a little too much effort.  

Should we not consider instead that: Windows is possible, and at the
same price as DJGPP, but
shouldn't DJGPP  be used for games and applications that are actually
useful? Just because the corporate
world is heading in the direction that Microsoft steers them, it does
not mean that the likes of the free thinking individual should follow...

Rob Humphris

My views are not those of my companies, they are my own, and no one will
take them away from me