X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: Ben Peddell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: DJGPP & wxWindows References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 30 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 09:06:24 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.139.176.211 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT bigpond DOT net DOT au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1065517584 144.139.176.211 (Tue, 07 Oct 2003 19:06:24 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 19:06:24 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Eric Wajnberg wrote: > Dear All, > > I am using DJGPP when I have to develop codes for Windows plateforms. I am > looking for some libraries to develop windows-type programs, etc. I know this > is a FAQ, but I'm still frustrated with that. Recently, I discovered wxWindows > (http://www.wxwindows.org/), that apparently provides what I am looking for. > > My question is: Is anyone here knowing if this library and software can be > used within DJGPP? Looking at the url given above, I did not found any > reference to DJGPP, but I did not tried directly. Did so of you tried? > > If not, is there any other avaliable alternatives? > > Thanks for any anwers on this issue. > > Best, Eric. wxWindows is just a cross-platform User Interface framework, just as SDL is a set of cross-platform Multimedia libraries, and Allegro is a cross-platform Game library. You still need a compiler capable of producing Win32 EXEs to make a Windows program. wxWindows will simply make it more portable. The build of GCC used by DJGPP is not capable of producing Win32 EXEs. The DJGPP libraries are also custom-made for DOS. You could, of course, try Cygwin .