From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject: Re: Solving the Win2K nested DPMI bug: Cygwin?
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NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 00:27:36 GMT
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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 00:27:37 GMT
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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On Mon, 09 Oct 2000 16:20:53 GMT, James <no AT no.> wrote:

>What would be involved in hosting the tools in mingw?  Would that simply
>mean recompiling the tools with mingw with win32 for the target?  If so,
>would it simply be a matter of recompiling (Since win32 console is so
>close to DOS console), or would there have to be a lot of porting going
>on?
>
>I'm going to try anyway in my ignorance, but I'm just curious how big of
>a project that is.  It'd be nice to have a complete port of all gcc and
>bin tools as native win32 console programs, to avoid any kind of
>problems like this.
>
>Basically, I'm just curious as to any opinions and information you have
>on any of this.  I don't have the knowledge to see what's hard and a lot
>of work, and what's really workable.  Thanks.

It'd be mostly a reconfigure and recompile.  Somebody should look at
the build instructions for making a Linux-to-DJGPP compiler:
  http://www.delorie.com/howto/djgpp/linux-x-djgpp.html
and try to make it MinGW- or Cygwin-hosted.  Cygwin _might_ be easier
(especially beyond gcc/binutils), as cygwin.dll implements much more
POSIX functionality than msvcrt.dll does.

Hint for the final step: Use 'windj' as the prefix.  windjgpp.exe is a
lot easier to type (and looks cooler) than i586-pc-msdosdjgpp-gpp.exe

Repeating the process with RSXNTDJ brings it full circle, but I
wouldn't recommend it :-)

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