From: NOdbrotherhood AT geocities DOT comSPAM (Michael D. Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: GNU Win 32 and Windows 95 GUI programming...
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 20:24:48 GMT
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On Thu, 25 Sep 1997 01:30:28 -0500, Weiqi Gao <weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com>
wrote:

>Michael D. Ryan wrote:
>> 
>> I am looking to start programming windows 95 applications, is using
>> the gnu-win32 a good choice.  I want to program GUI applications like
>> Explorer, or Netscape, or something along those lines.
>> 
>> I have no idea how to go about doing this, and am wondering if I am in
>> the right place.
>> 
>> I have been using DJGPP and compiling C code for dos, is windows
>> programming much different?
>> 
>> As you can see, I am pretty clueless, any help is appreciated.
>
>IF you haven't programmed Windows 16-bit or 32-bit before, you can
>forget about using Cygnus' GNU-Win32 port of GNU C/C++.
>
>Your best bet is to get MSDN and a commercial compiler (like the MSVC). 
>Windows programming is hard enough for the unfamiliarized, don't
>compound it with a tool that's being just developped right now.
>
>--
>Weiqi Gao
>weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com


Thanks, I'll do that....

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