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Re: cygwin, emacs, mozilla
- From: CBFalconer <cbfalconer at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 16:34:11 -0400
- Subject: Re: cygwin, emacs, mozilla
- Organization: Ched Research
- References: <5.1.0.14.2.20021024122730.029dac50@pop3.cris.com>
- Reply-to: cbfalconer at worldnet dot att dot net
Randall R Schulz wrote:
> At 12:15 2002-10-24, Thomas L Roche wrote:
> >Chris Lott <chris@chrislott.org> 10/24/2002 02:26 PM
> >
> >...
> >
> > > How well does Mozilla run on Cygwin
> >
> >That I don't know, but Moz says you can build Moz with Cygwin: see
> >
> >http://www.mozilla.org/build/win32.html
>
> Intriguing, but I don't think this produces a Cygwin binary. From
> the "GNU Tools for Microsoft Windows (the cygwin toolkit)" section
> of that page:
>
> "Cygwin is a UNIX-like environment for Windows... Mozilla uses a
> developer set of cygwin packages... These include gawk, make and
> zip utilities, and optionally cygwin perl. GCC is _not_ used and
> does not need to be installed."
>
> [ Emphasis and editing mine, of course. ]
>
> Note especially the last sentence. I believe this is intended for
> people who don't want to use the VisualC++ IDE, but I assume that
> since GCC is not used the VisualC++ compiler is and thus the end
> result is identical to that built with Visual C++.
>
> Am I misinterpreting that?
I am amazed that, considering the warm fuzzy loving relationship
between Microsoft and Netscape/Mozilla, they continue to use VC.
I would expect them to lean over backwards to move over to gcc.
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