From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject: Re: djgpp and Win2k
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On Wed, 06 Dec 2000 14:19:05 GMT, dsralich <dsralich AT my-deja DOT com>
wrote:

>My apologies again, just taking my best guess. And, I didn't mean
>that the problem was necessarily DJGPP's. In fact, I am sure it
>was changes in Win2k (Microsoft's problem), however, I feel MS will
>really not care if DJGPP works or not in Win2K

What is especially ironic is that (IIRC) Microsoft helped design DPMI.

>they'll probably just recommend buying VC++ 6.  So, I figure
>even though it's not DJGPP's problem, MS will make it so.

It may be easy to break DJGPP, but it's much harder to break Free
development systems that use the documented Win32 API and msvcrt.dll
without also breaking popular MSVC compiled apps.  Try MinGW:
  http://www.mingw.org/
Because some users have reported problems finding a binary:
ftp://ftp.xraylith.wisc.edu/pub/khan/gnu-win32/mingw32/gcc-2.95.2/gcc-2.95.2-msvcrt.exe
MinGW works fine for my Pure Allegro-based apps.

If you want the option of a POSIX layer for your GPL-compatible
application, try Cygwin:
  http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/

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