From: aborel AT icma DOT unil DOT ch (Alain Borel)
Subject: Re: LFN under NT
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Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il) wrote:

: On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Platon Bogachev wrote:

: > Will recompling gpp,ld etc. as Win32 console application solve the problem?

: Recompiling them with what tools?  DJGPP doesn't generate native Win32
: apps.  If you are thinking about using the Cygwin ports, then you
: don't need to bother: there are already versions of GCC etc. compiled
: by Cygwin, and they have full access to long file names on Windows NT.

Maybe he meant a host=i386-win32-whatever target=i386-go32-djgpp cross-compiler;
that might work, although the resulting compiler would no longer work under plain
DOS. This would also allow one to use DJGPP and cygwin32 and/or mingw32 on the
same computer with just one command line switch, eg.:
gcc -b i386-go32-djgpp -o hellodos.exe hello.c
<compile to DOS executable>

gcc -b i386-win32 -o hellowin.exe hello.c
<build win32 command line executable>

The cross-compiling part of the FAQ might be of use there...


Alain Borel
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