Re: Cygnus & win95

From: Christian Holm Christensen (cholm@hehi03.nbi.dk)
Date: Fri Feb 04 2000 - 04:55:55 EST

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    Hi Flemming and others, 
    
    I've had some more experince now, but still not succes. Most of the
    problems, I have a good feeling on hwo to deal with, though. If
    anyone's interreseted I'll keep you posted. However, this is a spare
    time project, so don't expect rapid development. 
    
    On Thu, 3 Feb 2000 21:31:08 -0500 "videbaek" <videbaek@sgs1.hirg.bnl.gov> wrote:
    > Kris alluded to 'experience with win95'. I will admit to being the
    > likely source of this.About 1.5 years ago I tried to get the most
    > recent version of cygnus to work with my win95. It installed, and many
    > 'unix' commands did work - but should one happen to give wrong
    > arguments, the system hung.  
    
    This is no longer a problem sung Beta20 (a.k.a. cygwin-b20). I'm
    familiar with the problem you refer to, since I tried the old Cygnus
    myself around that time, too. 
    
    > So in the end I ended up using nmake and dos commands with VC++ to
    > deal with building brat on win95. The is the source of the makent
    > files in the brat cvs directory. They do not treat dependencies
    > correctly, but are good enough following a clean to build a working
    > Brat on my win95 laptop. 
    
    I guess my intent was to go OpenSource, and really to avoid
    VC++. Another point, is that using Cygnus, your using the same
    compiler as you would on Linux/Unix (Solaris?), and that I believe
    will make for a smother transaction of code. Also, I'm gonna try to
    run an Xserver on Windoze95, and if that happens, I guess the ROOT GUI
    classes should work on Windoze (including Kris' BrMointor<x>
    classes!). But this is just for fun, and to show people, that GNU's is
    Not Untanglable (pun _is_ intended), and OpenSource really is better!
    Of course it remains to be seen!? 
    
    Christian Holm Christensen 
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