FW: Newbie to Cygwin

["Norman Vine" <nhv@cape.com>]

>original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/gnu-win32/?start=16146
>>
>> I have installed Cygwin for the first time, and I am
>starting to play
>> around with it. I have been using DJGPP for some time (and GCC under
>> Linux), so I am not a newcomer to using GCC. However I am trying to
>> build our Win32 libraries with Cygwin but I have a few questions:
>>
>>  1. Our code relies on the mmsystem.h header file from Microsoft,
>> however this header file does not appear to be distributed
>as part of
>> the Cygwin package.
>
>>  3. Why is bash and the Win32 tools so so? Is there some way
>they can
>> be sped up (I am assuming the Win32 console API's and curses are the
>> main performance hit here, both of which are dog slow).
>>
>

Hi Kendall

I find that the B20.1 distribution augmented with
the following quite satisfactory :-))

headers and libraries for the Win32 API
 http://www.acc.umu.se/~anorland/gnu-win32/

I recomend replacing the cygwin1.dll with this one

ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/cygwin/snapshot-19990115/cygwin1-19990115.dl
l.gz

And using the gcc2.95 compiler from
 ftp://ftp.xraylith.wisc.edu/pub/khan/gnu-win32/cygwin/gcc-2.95

For a faster console use rxvt
 http://www.io.com/~bub/rxvt.html

or just use a normal windows DOS console when you do not need a UNIX shell

Many Thanks to all those who have made CygWin what it is  :-)))

Cheers

Norman Vine -- nhv@cape.com





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