Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 14:35:40 +0800 (GMT)
From: Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
To: DJGPP List Server <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: producing Win32 executables
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hello,

 i've just tried out Cygnus GNU-Win32 (beta-18) on Windows NT Server and
NT Workstation 4.0 and it's excellent! i'm no fan of NT, but GNU-Win32
boasts of a very nice environment that's almost UNIX (for the UNIX fans
out there). GCC is (already) self-hosting on this environment, and the
compatibility with UNIX is pretty good.

 i took a small program that i wrote (it fetches a URL for you) and it
compiles without changes under NT, and it works too (this program uses
network sockets and does nameserver lookups). 

 i believe that Cygnus also claims DirectX compatibility for GNU-Win32,
after all, it's a native Win32 application environment. you can even setup
bash as your command shell (instead of cmd.exe). most unix ipc (pipes,
mmap() etc) works, and it's not the fake pipe >tmpfile bit.

 anyway, if you're having trouble with producing native Win32 executables,
i think GNU-Win32 is a very nice environment -- it even comes with a
Tcl-based front end for GDB.
 
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