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Re: OpenNT & GNU-Win32 Comparison?
- To: pyeh at jungfrau dot usc dot edu
- Subject: Re: OpenNT & GNU-Win32 Comparison?
- From: Andreas Bischoff <bischoff at ise dot com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 16:48:04 -0700
- Cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
Hi Peter,
>
> Hi,
>
> Has anyone done any comparison between OpenNT by Softway and GNU-Win32? If
> you know any information or have done a comparison, please let me know the
> result. It seems that they are competing products. Of course, OpenNT is a
> commercial product which means it costs money. However, I believe that
> OpenNT has a better develop environment with a more complete set of tools.
> This is what I understand base on the information on the web. If you know
> anything more or use it before, please let me know. Thank you in advance.
>
> --Peter
>
> -
I didn't do a highly sophisticated comparison, but did check out the
30 day demo.
Turned out that I couldn't do much with it.
OpenNT requires that you have MSVC installed and does not support C++
so far. Also, I need Fortran, which is not supported.
I've tried to compile a couple of standard utilities, started with tcl,
but the autoconfigure didn't work out.
Tried also to get gcc/g++ compiled but without much luck, at which point
I didn't spend any more time with it.
Also, the bundled X server is the one from Netmanage, which didn't impress me
either.
The usage of MSVC creates a mess in my opinion.
They tried to create a wrapper, which converts unix like path names to
windoze like ones. At least in my case this didn't seem to work very well.
I still think the idea of having a working POSIX subsytem is a good one
but I'd rather wait for the next release.
They promised to put tcl/tk and gcc on their web side. Didn't check recently.
Regards,
Andreas
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