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Re: cygwin, emacs, mozilla


Tomas,

At 12:15 2002-10-24, Thomas L Roche wrote:
Chris Lott <chris@chrislott.org> 10/24/2002 02:26 PM

...

> How well does Mozilla run on Cygwin

That I don't know, but Moz says you can build Moz with Cygwin: see

http://www.mozilla.org/build/win32.html
Intriguing, but I don't think this produces a Cygwin binary. From the "GNU Tools for Microsoft Windows (the cygwin toolkit)" section of that page:

"Cygwin is a UNIX-like environment for Windows... Mozilla uses a developer set of cygwin packages... These include gawk, make and zip utilities, and optionally cygwin perl. GCC is _not_ used and does not need to be installed."

[ Emphasis and editing mine, of course. ]

Note especially the last sentence. I believe this is intended for people who don't want to use the VisualC++ IDE, but I assume that since GCC is not used the VisualC++ compiler is and thus the end result is identical to that built with Visual C++.

Am I misinterpreting that?

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


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