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Subject: Re: GNU Software for MS-Windows and MS-DOS
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 17:38:31 +1100
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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message
news:1438-Fri17Nov2000173546+0200-eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il...
: > From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
: > Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
: > Date: 17 Nov 2000 12:15:33 GMT
: >
: > MinGW just doesn't provide enough of POSIX compatibility to be able
: > to support any of the more advanced GNU programs.
:
: Someone posted here several months ago an announcement about a Windows
: library based on DJGPP's libc (search for PW32 in the DJGPP
: mail-archives page).  Using that library, it should be easy to port
: many GNU tools by simply using the DJGPP ported sources.

have alook at the extra packages for devcpp(mingw with ide)
www.bloodshed.net/dev
http://members.fortunecity.com/honglilai/

http://members.fortunecity.com/honglilai/packages.html  here

pw32 http://members.fortunecity.com/honglilai/pw32.html

pw32 homepage
http://pw32.sourceforge.net/

Alex