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From: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
To: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: DJGPP & Windows 2000 weelky status report for 26-Aug-2001
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 12:36:21 +1000
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Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com

If you have access to a Windows 2000 or XP or just want to know what is
happening with the DJGPP compiler and Windows 2000/XP then please read the
rest of this email.

The unofficial  DJGPP Windows 2000 site url is
http://clio.rice.edu/djgpp/win2k/main.htm. A full status report of where I
am up to is available online and is updated on a ad-hoc basis.

This weeks two major milestones achieved in my opinion were:
1) That the DPMI leak issue should now be resolved for both Win 2K/XP and
Win 9x thanks to Charles and Andris.
2) It is now possible to rebuild the majority of DJGPP and associated
packages on Win 2K is using last weekends updated WIP binary files available
from unofficial  DJGPP Windows 2000 site

Other milestones acheived:
1) A WIP version of patch is now available that works on Win 2K. Please
report any crashes or issues with this as the patch included to get this
working is NOT fully tested and could introduce more bugs than it solves.

If you are not aware of what is available at the the unofficial  DJGPP
Windows 2000 site please read then following blurb:

The site contains allot of info which is designed to help developers get the
DJGPP compiler and associated packages working on Windows 2000 and XP as
quickly as possible so that they can help the out. The site also contains a
number of work in progress binary files for use on Windows 2000 and XP (and
Win 9x for crazy developers who want to test for backward compatibility
issues) .

The info and files at the site should allow DJGPP developers and users to
get the DJGPP compiler  working under Windows 2000 and XP very quickly, it
still requires you to download the packages from Simtel. The site is
accessible from DJ's site by clicking on the "Current DJGPP status vs
Windows 2000 (unofficial)" link under the Introduction section.

NOTE: The binary files available from the unofficial  DJGPP Windows 2000
site still have known issues with them so be aware! The binary files
available for download are WIP (work in progress) and usually get updated
after some bugs are fixed.

Andrew