CygWin32 and BPCompat_(re)

Mon, 9 Jun 1997 11:26:55 +0100 (BST)

On Mon, 9 Jun 1997 12:09:21 +0100 (WET DST) Jan-Jaap van der Heijden 
 wrote:
>
>I have converted just enough headers to be able to compile a basic GUI
>application, where you do all the message handling yourself (no object
>windows available :-(

No sweat about object Windows (something can be done about that later).
Can you please send me a copy of your converted headers? Thanks. There
is no point in duplicating efforts, and I don't want to reinvent the wheel.

>I did this for cygwin32 b16. Then I focussed more on the unix ascpects for
>some time, but now I have a b18 GPC compiler, and I'm working on some
>cygwin32 things (DLL's, building the RTS as a DLL etc.) I'm not sure that
>function attibutes survive through the GPI mechanism (they didn't for
>b16) so using units may not be possible. 

Well, I could simply "$INCLUDE" the sources - which is what I did when I
first started using GPC anyway.

> You need the
>"__attribute__((stdcall))" feature to access win32 API functions.

Yes, I saw this in some of the sample programs.

>Building DLL's on doze95 is difficult (not just for GPC) in b18.
>NT seemed fine, but my NT machine crashed a HD this weekend :-(

Ooops!

>> PS:
>> I have found that many things are different under CygWin from the rest
>> (e.g., the "stat" structure;  the "errno", which is implemented as a macro); 
>> and many things which are in standard C headers are missing  (e.g.,
>> strlwr(), strupr(), stricmp, etc.). 
>> 
>
>cygwin32 is basically BSD.
>I don't know about the unix (?) that cygwin32 differs from in your opinion, 

I was actually comparing it to the emx and djgpp headers - which I suppose
I shouldn't. I didn't know that cygwin32 was based on BSD.

Best regards, The Chief 
Dr Abimbola A. Olowofoyeku (The African Chief, and the Great Elephant)
Author of:  Chief's Installer Pro v3.60 for Win16 and Win32.
Homepage:  http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/African_Chief/
E-mail: laa12@cc.keele.ac.uk


The African Chief (laa12@cc.keele.ac.uk)