On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 10:55:55AM +0100, Christian Holm Christensen wrote: > 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. > We are discussing "cygwin" thing from Cygnus, right? I am using it all the time, and it is rock-solid on WinNT4. Presumably it would not be as stable on OS-less Win95 and Win98 systems. K.O. > > 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 > ______________________________________________________________________ > Address: Phone: (+45) 35 35 96 91 > Sankt Hansgade 23, 1. th. Office: (+45) 353 25 307 > DK-2200 Copenhagen N Web: www.nbi.dk/~cholm > Denmark Email: cholm@nbi.dk -- Konstantin Olchanski Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, New York olchansk@bnl.gov
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