[DGD] Question: Implementing ANSI

[Josh Dady]

On May 7, 2005, at 9:27 AM, Par Winzell wrote:

> As you seem to have already figured out, there's two substantially  
> different ways to compile DGD for Windows; one's native to Windows,  
> uses the Windows API, and requires Visual C++... and one compiles  
> DGD as a Unix application, on top of Cygwin.

As an aside, I thought about doing the legwork to make DGD compile  
with the mingw.org toolchain, and see if I could get Dworkin to  
swallow them, but decided I didn't like Windows enough for it to be  
worth the trouble (and I mean the porting; I didn't even really get  
to whether I could convince Dworkin of anything).

If you're not familiar with this project, it is essentially the  
minimal set of tools you need to build, configure, and autoconfiscate  
a project; plus windows headers and import libs.  Unlike the Cygwin  
toolchain, the mingw compiler -only- produces native (console and  
gui) applications (which, in turn, means that "minimal" includes a  
bunch of dll tools).  Good luck if you want to do COM though; it was  
nice knowing you.  ;)

For what it's worth, the mingw toolchain is in Darwinports, so anyone  
working on Mac OS X should be able to build native Windows apps  
directly using a Mac-hosted compiler once the heavy lifting is done.

--
Joshua P. Dady
http://www.indecisive.com/