Re: Cygnus & win95

From: Konstantin Olchanski (olchansk@ux1.phy.bnl.gov)
Date: Fri Feb 04 2000 - 08:53:28 EST

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    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 
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    Konstantin Olchanski
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