From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: cygwin Date: 13 Aug 2002 13:21:53 GMT Organization: Aachen University of Technology (RWTH) Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: acp3bf.physik.rwth-aachen.de X-Trace: nets3.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE 1029244913 11314 137.226.32.75 (13 Aug 2002 13:21:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse AT rwth-aachen DOT de NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Aug 2002 13:21:53 GMT Originator: broeker@ To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Nick Griffiths wrote: > Im in the process of installing cygwin, and was wondering if there is > anyway to sort of integrate djgpp with it, or are they rather separate > entities. I would kind of like them to be in the same directory so i can > use djgpp with cygwin or is that kind of defeating the purpose of cygwin? It is. DJGPP and Cygwin are superficially similar, but truly independent projects: one brings GNU programs to DOS, the other brings them to Windows. The fact that DJGPP's DOS programs run in Windows, too, doesn't really affect that important difference. Mixing individual programs from these two toolchains in daily work is sometimes possible, but it has enough quirks that it's not really recommendable, unless you're quite a command line wizard, willing and able to build your own crosscompiler toolchain to run in one environment, producing programs for the other. -- Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de) Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.