On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 05:19:43PM -0400, JAMES M MASTROS wrote: > The key issue is binary-compatablity. win32-i386, win32-alpha, and > win32-ia64 are different ports. cygwin-i386 vs. whateverelsewin-i386 have > binary-compatablity as much as libc5 & glibc do, don't they? More so. Apps from mingw-i386 should run under cygwin-i386 without recompiling, although quite a lot of them would be considerably more work to port to that 'arch'. I would suggest that it is impractical and unhelpful to port to win32, though. winnt would be a better target, it has a filesystem which is not rooted in the dark ages and actually supports permissions and supports a decent subset of POSIX libc stuff. How many applications would work sanely and securely without UNIX-like permissions (as well as anything else win9x might lack that I haven't thought of). -- Andrew Suffield <asuffield@users.sourceforge.net> Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK
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