--- Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 04:03:28PM +0200, Christof Petig wrote: > >[Summary: Cygwin is good to compile programs on win32 with minimal > >porting effort, but a stable port should use MinGW] > > Summary: If you want to ignore all of the work that has gone into > -mno-cygwin to make it work reliably, then use MinGW.
I have a great deal of respect for cygwin, and use it every day at work. The amount of packages for it great. For me, the only reason why I am using mingw, is because it is hosted under linux. Like many of you, I dont have windows at home, and would never fork out the cash for a legal copy of the MSVC compilier. That is why I am so excited that the mingw is coming along nicely. I hope to find portability throught all the incarnations of the gcc toolchain. It is interesting how autoconf, automake, m4 and perl play such a large role in the build process. I long to convert all of this into some perl runtime, at least something that can be debugged. m4 to perl translator? introspector::m4, inline::m4? hmmm, have to look into the implementation. At least the .configure script should be a debuggable object. Perl would fit in somehow. mike Mike ===== James Michael DuPont http://introspector.sourceforge.net/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
