Xiaofan, I do understand what you mean. Someone else has explained off-list, too, that LINUX has a WINE that attempts to provide a Windows user interface for LINUX users, and these add-ons apparently attempt to provide the *NIX console command interface for the Windows user. Since, ultimately, they are executed in the same hardware environment, there's no reason one couldn't/shouldn't do that. I'd be interested in how extensively that function has been made to work. I've read/heard precious little about that.
regards, Richard Erlacher ----- Original Message ----- From: "Xiaofan Chen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <sdcc-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 3:35 AM Subject: Re: [Sdcc-user] documentation & open source generally > On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Richard Erlacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Sadly, though you may know, you haven't shed light on WHY this SDCC stuff >> isn't promoted as a DOS program, rather than a Windows program. > > SDCC under Windows is a Win32 console (command line) version. It is > a Windows program. > >> If it requires an add-on to Windows, WHY? What does that do? > > SDCC runs under Windows fine without the need for any add-on. However, > some people prefer to run it with the add-ons they like to use. > >> Do you see what I mean? Why is there a CYGWIN? ... and what's that >> other >> one MINGW ... or some such? Why do those exist? >> > > Some people prefer to run some Unix compatible shell and commands > under Windows, that is the purpose of Cygwin. MinGW is the GCC > compiler under Windows without the dependency for Cygwin DLL. > MSys provides some basic shell support for MinGW. > > Xiaofan > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Sdcc-user mailing list Sdcc-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sdcc-user
