Re: Question: Windows Build - feature branch

[Derek Robert Price]

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Conrad T. Pino wrote:

>>>Is adding a complete set distinctly named VC 6.0 build files and
keeping VC 5.0
>>>files in a semi-maintained state an option?
>
>
>I'd appreciate your opinion to the above question.


I suppose I wouldn't really have any objection to this if it appears
most convenient to the folks who have to use the files.

>Do you have any thoughts about MinGW http://www.mingw.org/?


Hadn't even heard of it before.  It looks like it is trying to do what
we want.  Have you tried to build CVS with it?

>>I haven't tried the DJGPP version of GCC yet.  It is possible that it
>>doesn't suffer from the same limitations as Cygwin.  If you have time to
>>research that and would like to report back, I would like to hear.
>
>
>DJGPP http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/ looks problematic since it's target OS
>is DOS, MS-DOS and compatibles.  The current Windows build targets the
Win32
>API and DJGPP targets the DOS API.  I'm concerned we lose too munch
function
>with the DOS API.


Windows still has support for DOS, and I'm fairly certain that the
command line version of CVS won't be making much use of Windows-specific
calls.  Some of the networking stuff might be tricky, but I'll be
suprised if that won't build just from what I heard when I used to lurk
on the Autoconf lists.

Derek

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