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Re: Cygwin32 Newbie (NBY)


Earnie Boyd wrote:
> 
> Hi Nigel,
> 
> Check out the URL pointers I have listed below my signature.
> 
> Remember that this is beta software, and that the Cygnus approach is to
> emulate enough of Unix to allow for porting of Unix software to Win32
> without having to re-program.
> 
> Others have taken the Cygnus work and removed the Unix layer.  This
> version run faster as it doesn't emulate the Unix environment.  However,
> no BASH as yet :(.

YES! Who out there is smart and kind enough to bash bash into compiling
with mingw32. I know I would be at it for a looooooong time. Anyone
smarter up to it?
I just don't want to have to cross compile from cygwin to mingw ;)

	Bart

> 
> For text modes, this is user settable, check the mail archives for lots
> of discussion on text=binary vs text!=binary.
> 
> >Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1998 01:05:08 +1100
> >To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com
> >From: Nigel Stewart <nigels@eisa.net.au>
> >Subject: Cygwin32 Newbie
> >
> >
> >I'm writing this to say g'day, and pose some newbie type questions.
> >If you've got better things to do than answers these, please ignore..
> ;)
> >
> >I downloaded cdk.exe yesterday, and been doing some fiddling...
> >
> >1.     I get the impression that gcc is slower than the djgpp
> >       binary.  Also, bash can be somewhat unresponsive and
> >       sometimes when I type I get funny characters, as if a
> >       buffer is overflowing somewhere.  Are these issues related
> >       to cygwin32, my slow 486 machine, win95, or something else?
> >
> >2.     Is there somewhere I could get binaries for X11 by ftp?
> >       I have the feeling that it would take a very long time to
> >       compile on my box.
> >
> >3.     Is it possible to cross-compile between djgpp, cygwin32 and/or
> >       Linux, in theory or practice?
> >
> >4.     Does someone have a joe binary handy?  ( I love unix, but not vi! ;)
> >
> >5.     What is the proposed text/binary behavior for cygwin32?
> >       I expected unix "binary as default", but found the opposite for
> >       fopen, open, setmode, etc...
> >
> >Thanks in advance...
> >
> >Nigel Stewart
> >
> >
> >--
> >Nigel Stewart, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
> >Email: nigel@anon.nymserver.com (Ask me for PGP key.)
> >
> >
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> Check out these great gnu-win32 related sites:
> ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/latest/           (ftp site)
> http://www.cygnus.com/pubs/gnupro/                   (Comercial Page)
> http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/                (Project Page)
> http://www.cygnus.com/ml/gnu-win32                   (Mail Archives)
> http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/winhelp-man-pages/    (HTML Man Pages)
> http://www.lexa.ru/sos                               (Sergey Okhapkin)
> ftp://www.lexa.ru/pub/domestic/sos/                (Sergey's ftp site)
> http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/gcc.html        (Colin Peters)
> http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ (Mumit Khan)
> http://gnu-win32.paranoia.ru                   (Chuck Bogorad's ports)
> ftp://ftp.deninc.com/pub (Den Internet Services - US mirror and ports)
> http://www.bestweb.net/~aka/gnu-win32/  (GNU-Win32 Bash Configuration)
> http://rcw.home.ml.org/                  (Rob Warner - software ports)
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