Randall R Schulz wrote: > At 12:15 2002-10-24, Thomas L Roche wrote: > >Chris Lott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/24/2002 02:26 PM > > > >... > > > > > How well does Mozilla run on Cygwin > > > >That I don't know, but Moz says you can build Moz with Cygwin: see > > > >http://www.mozilla.org/build/win32.html > > Intriguing, but I don't think this produces a Cygwin binary. From > the "GNU Tools for Microsoft Windows (the cygwin toolkit)" section > of that page: > > "Cygwin is a UNIX-like environment for Windows... Mozilla uses a > developer set of cygwin packages... These include gawk, make and > zip utilities, and optionally cygwin perl. GCC is _not_ used and > does not need to be installed." > > [ Emphasis and editing mine, of course. ] > > Note especially the last sentence. I believe this is intended for > people who don't want to use the VisualC++ IDE, but I assume that > since GCC is not used the VisualC++ compiler is and thus the end > result is identical to that built with Visual C++. > > Am I misinterpreting that?
I am amazed that, considering the warm fuzzy loving relationship between Microsoft and Netscape/Mozilla, they continue to use VC. I would expect them to lean over backwards to move over to gcc. -- Chuck F ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems. <http://cbfalconer.home.att.net> USE worldnet address! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
