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Re: GNU C Library and cygwin
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 09:56:35 -0400
- Subject: Re: GNU C Library and cygwin
- References: <09LUQQ515ZOMHFKJ5ZYXPK9SR12Z.3d19c746@lmdk>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 07:53:10AM -0600, Gerald Howse wrote:
>Got your eMail from the cygwin site.
>
>Just cygwin installed OK and was configuring so I can
>run OCaml on my win98box. OCaml wouldn't compile so started
>installing GTK libs that ./configure was asking for and found
>that the GNU C Library is not ported to cygwin.
>
>Any chance that GNU C Library might get ported to cygwin?
I think you're a little confused about cygwin. Cygwin provides the
equivalent of a C library for Windows. Porting glibc *to* cygwin would
be redundant.
Anyway, there are no plans on doing anything with glibc.
cgf
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