From: teunis <teunis@computersupportcentre.com>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 10:09:52 -0700 (MST)

Re: libggi not working ... (GNU stuff/complaints/answers)

On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Sven wrote:

> > Actually I did think so, yes.  As I have -always- had GNU stuffy on my Linux
> > box I never knew better.  (and I've only recently gotten into Visual C++.. A
> > long time ago I used to program with Watcom C++ and Borland C++ and in those
> > days autoconf/.. didn't exist - and for the most part neither did any
> 
> i hope not to much ggi developpers are mostly familiar with the M$ way of doing things.

Don't know what ya mean but okay :)
[I haven't coded much for M$ in ... uh... 4 or 5 years now.  Been running
linux happily since 92]

> > and GNU has never made it any easier to find out.  Their documentation?
> > what documentation?
> 
> there are the .info files, the man pages, andnaturally the source itsefl.
> 
> anyway, configure is just a shell script, and i think nd it works everywhere where there is a true OS underneath.
> 
> for M$ people (what they need ggi for ?)  you just give them binaries, and anyone who wants tro compile the stuff themself should get the appropiate tools, or just install  DJGPP.

We want to take over world, yes?  This means GGI running under windows to
convince people to port to a real OS too :)

If we can get it smooth enough (grin) we'll take over :)
[an' if it takes over directX real easy-like we'll have that too :]

Be kinda funky if someday GGI makes DirectX obsolete (like it should be)

But yer right.  To compile the libs might as well require another 50 megs
of tools [and none of 'em M$].  (smaller than the 100M+ Visual C++ 4.0
install... and prolly lots smaller than 5.0 or 6.0)

In that case leave windows as unsupported until GGI hits 1.0.  Or as a
seriously-alpha platform....

G'day, eh? :)
	- Teunis

PS: in privatemail, can someone -please- tell me where to get the
non-cygwin version of the C libs?  [please please?]