Subj : Re: NPTL2 or something
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Joseph Seigh
Date : Tue Jan 04 2005 07:39 am

On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 15:31:57 -0500, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak  
<ronald@landheer.com> wrote:

> Joseph Seigh wrote:
>> but I have vc++ 6.0 which sucks and which causes problems.
>> I need to go to vc++ 7.0 except that requires patches for
>> win2k.  Except putting patches on win2k leads to win2k not
>> booting.  So I'd have to go to winXP prof which also means
>> upgrading some other ms apps.  All of which means lot of
>> money.  Also if I go that route then I should upgrade the
>> hardware given that MS locks you in to a specific machine.
>> So lots of money which I don't have.  So for now, no windows
>> stuff.
> Have you considered using MinGW?
> Have a look at www.mingw.org - it's a port of GCC to Windows (a bit like  
> Cygwin, but without the UNIX-emulating DLL). It allows access to an  
> pretty-complete win32 API set of headers, reconstructed from scratch  
> according to the documentation and links to Microsoft's own CRTL - just  
> like Visual C++ does.
>

It would have to be compatible with vc++ 7.0 otherwise the code you wrote
with it wouldn't be very portable.  Anyway, I have vc++ 6.0 working again
which should suffice for now since I'm not doing any new development for
win32 at this point.

Joe Seigh

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