From: Dominique DOT Biesmans AT ping DOT be (Dominique Biesmans)
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Subject: Cygnus ,rsxntdj, Lcc win32 (!!!)
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 1997 18:34:12 GMT
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On Tue, 08 Jul 1997 10:29:09 +0300, ON <oded AT memco DOT co DOT il> wrote:

>John Arnold wrote:

>> I've been working with rsxntdj for a while now and I just started
>> hearing stuff about Cygnus's gnu-win32 port.
>> 
>> Has anyone tried both of them?  Which is better?

RSXNTDJ adds Win32 support to DJGPP. It does the job, and gives you
the possibility to create DLL's, create import libs for existing
DLL's, ... . A few drawbacks though :
-broken linker (doesn't give you unresolved externals)
-it isn't free like DJGPP (it's fully functional shareware)

Cygnus Win32 is a complete port of the Gnu-environment to win32. Apart
from creating native windows applications, you can compile (allmost)
any unix program with it. Since a few version it's gotten realy
stable. (Version b18 now I believe). A few drawbacks though.
- Its' big (15 Mb compressed)
- It falls under the GNU license, meaning you have to deliver the
source if you publish programs that are compiled with it.
- If you just want to create win32 applications, there's a lot of
stuff in it you can't use.

>
>I've tried cygnus, well I threw it away pretty soon.
>
>I heard that this is an early beta release, so based on my short
>experience, stick to what you got if it works.
>

Must have been a long time ago you downloaded it. Go ahead and try it
again, it's quite stable now.

But what I would advice for someone who wants to play a little with
windows programming (for free) is :

-Cygnus Minimalist Win32 - a smaller packacge derived from Cygnus
Win32, without the unix stuff, doesn't fall under GPL license.

- (!!!) Lcc Win32 - a Win32 c-compiler, very small, very fast and very
free. (But no C++) The complete package is 1.5Mb 'big', including
executables, runtime libraries, a fully fledged IDE, examples, import
libraries for OpenGL, Directdraw, ..... It's really cool.

(For links do a seach for 'lcc win32' on altavista)

enjoy...

Dominique Biesmans