Hm, someone's been digging around in the email archives! ;-) Actually, that's good to see.
While I won't argue the slight semantic differences pointed out here between what I said and this response, I believe we both agree it makes the same point, at least in the context of Cygwin. Anyone that wants to can try to port MFC to any Win32-based compiler they want but they will end up with something restricted by the Microsoft license. Larry Original Message: ----------------- From: Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 20:13:52 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: using MFC with cygwin ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 6:59 AM Subject: RE: using MFC with cygwin > No one has ported MFC to any compiler besides VC++. And while > it could be done, the benefits are minimal since the Microsoft > license would prevent you from distributing the result. MFC was not ported to VC; it did not exist prior to VC. I am 95% sure that (some) Borland compilers license (include) MFC. You might be correct that it has not been ported, but Microsoft licenses it. The VC compiler includes the MFC source code so it would not be too much work to port (unlicensed). I assume that if source code existed that did the same thing as MFC then it could be entirely legal. I think the original question was about a console program that used MFC and I would probably suggest not using MFC for that. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.419 / Virus Database: 235 - Release Date: 11/14/2002 -- 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/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . -- 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/
