Re: Current status of Cygwin port

[Fred Kiefer]

Rob Scott wrote:
> 
> > I tried to build GNUstep on a Cygwin (1.3.10) / XFree (4.1.0) / Window
> > Maker (0.8.0) / gcc (3.1) environment running under WinXP Pro.   The
> > problems that keep GNUstep's core/base from being built are in the make
> > files: dlltool is called without the complete parameters (I ran it manually
> > and it succeeded), then dllwrap (I stopped there, but it seems that again
> > it's called with incomplete parameters).
> 
> What I suspect someone _really_ needs to do is write a backend native to the
> Win32 GDI (? is it the gdi i'm thinking of ?) *grin*
> Any voulenteers?


Interesting idea. Didn't I do this some months ago? At least there is
the win32 and winlib backend and this only uses the GDI. But than again,
you would know that better. And if this backend would exist, I would
have got some comments on it, wouldn't I?


Fred