Re: How does Cygnus compare to RSX

[Michael Holzapfel <michael at ime dot rwth-aachen dot de>]

Allen H. Cogbill wrote:
> 
> I've never used the Cygnus-Win32 development environment, but I
> have used RSXNT, which is an extension of the EMX project (for
> OS/2) to Win32. How does Cygnus compare? Does it provide the
> same capabilities? RSX seems especially easy to use (to me, at
> least), and appears to have few bugs. What isn't available is
> a g77 port, whereas I note that is is available under Cygnus.
You can get the OS/2(emx) binaries of the g77-Port. They run under RSX
as well. Long filenames are not supported on NT, because the binaries
run in DOS-DPMI mode. 
You can recompile the sources (g77src.zip + gccsrc1..3.zip) with adding
the -Zwin32 switch in order to get Win32-console Apps. Maybe i'll
provide these binaires in the next release of g77.
Because of my experiences with emx (under OS/2), i would prefer the
RSX-compiler.
Nevertheless, cygnus seems to be the mainstream gcc implementation on
Win32.
> 
> Any information greatly appreciated.
> 
> Allen Cogbill
> Los Alamos National Lab
> ahc@lanl.gov
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