From:	Dave Pearson <davep AT hagbard DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Adding Windows Support?
Date:	Sat, 9 Nov 1996 08:27:26 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Dave Pearson wrote:
> 
> > What sort of things are you thinking of that are needed from the
> > SDK?  I've compiled a couple of (simple) Win95 programs with DJGPP
> > and RSXNTDJ and I don't have any kind of Win95 SDK kicking around.
> 
> I might have been talking out of ignorance, but what bothers me is
> exactly how ``simple'' a program must be before it can be compiled
> with RSXNTDJ without additional packages such as MFC.

Good point, I wonder how complex an app can be done as well, however,
I'd not consider MFC to be part of an "SDK", it might be nice to have
for some, but you can also do most(all?) work with the direct API.

> Can you write a full-blown Win32 program with a decent GUI (dialog
> boxes, scroll bars, fonts, etc.) with only DJGPP and RSXNTDJ?

This is guessing (from writing API Win311 apps), but I can't see any
reason why not. Once that that *is* missing is a resource editor, but
you can still write the resource files by hand (groan).

> If you can, then why did Cygnus develop a whole new project instead
> of just using DJGPP and RSXNT?

A question for Cygnus I think. However, correct me if I'm wrong, but
all the Cygnus software is Win32 software, unlike DJGPP.

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