----- Original Message ----- From: Barry Gershenfeld To: Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 1:10 AM Subject: [PIC]: Cygwin > >From this it appears that you have to pay for a support contract in order to > >get hold of production code. > > >Has anyone here actually used cygwin to implement large projects, or is this > >another case of "a friend of a friend of mine swears by it" > >Sergio Masci > > Here's the way I read it: > > - There used to be beta versions, all start with a "B". > - There was a commercial release, 1.0 > - They're not interested in selling commercial releases > because it's too much trouble to make CDs, etc. > - Red Hat has their own product which may or may not > include some version of Cygwin... > - The Cygwin team continues to develop, you can download > it, and the current version is 1.3-something > > I installed it, and I use gcc to build simple C programs. I > also run utilities like grep and sort and awk and so on. The other > day I used it to build someone else's program (an RAR extractor). > But in true GNU style, if you can run gcc, you can make anything... > > My office-mate used gcc to build a complete cross-compiling > toolchain for the ARM, and uses it to build embedded video > controllers (about 100K object code). > > It's not always smooth sailing, but it's real and it works. > > People say you can run X, but I never have tried. > > The 250K download is an installer, then you get to pick what > you want to have in your system. You can go back and > get more packages later. > > Barry Barry, thanks for all the info. From what you're saying cygwin has evolved into more than just a GNU windows runtime library. When I first looked at it several years ago it seemed to be an attempt to improve on mingw and better integrate it with gpp. Now it seems (from what you're saying) that it's a GNU development environment running on windows. You say that your office-mate used gcc to build an ARM tool chain. I was hoping to read first hand testimonials involving the use of cygwin to actually produce non-trivial windows programs. Regards Sergio Masci -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads