Re: Questions about porting from Linux to Windows...

2007-01-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 23 10:18, jano trouba wrote: > if I were to do the opposite : > > port entirley the project under cygwin using cygwin sockets and X and > build the binaries with cygwin > > I would have to ship cygwin1.DLL (or is it cygwin2 ?) together with the > binaries and pay a licence fee, wouldn'

Re: Questions about porting from Linux to Windows...

2007-01-23 Thread jano trouba
OK... Finally I think everything is clear... And just to be perfectly clear and on the safe side : if I were to do the opposite : port entirley the project under cygwin using cygwin sockets and X and build the binaries with cygwin I would have to ship cygwin1.DLL (or is it cygwin2 ?) toge

Re: Questions about porting from Linux to Windows...

2007-01-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 23 00:28, jano trouba wrote: > In the examples you gave me of different applications (Hello), they are > both LINKED via cgwin. Yes, but the results are different. When using the -mno-cygwin flag your build native Windows applications, when not using that flag you build Cygwin application

Re: Questions about porting from Linux to Windows...

2007-01-22 Thread jano trouba
OK thanks a lot for your time and answer... I read the User's Guide... Almost everything is clear now... I still have a last question : In the examples you gave me of different applications (Hello), they are both LINKED via cgwin. Unfortunatley my project if a major GUI program (about 80 0

Re: Questions about porting from Linux to Windows...

2007-01-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 22 17:25, jano trouba wrote: > >If you create static libs which don't use Cygwin functions, then you're > >build native Windows libs. That's no problem and has nothing to do with > >Cygwin anymore. You're off the hook. > > > >If you build static libs which use Cygwin functions, your applic

Re: Questions about porting from Linux to Windows...

2007-01-22 Thread jano trouba
Thanks Corinna for your answer.. It is not yet entirely clear for me... . This is a NO-NO on this list. I apologize for that. As I said I discovered cygwin and your site this weekend... If you create static libs which don't use Cygwin functions, then you're build native Windows libs. T

Re: Questions about porting from Linux to Windows...

2007-01-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 22 16:21, jano trouba wrote: > >From: Tim Prince This is a NO-NO on this list. http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR > >You are going way beyond the scope of this list. A mingw .a library could > >be linked into an MSVC build, since it tries to avoid conflicting run-time > >l

Re: Questions about porting from Linux to Windows...

2007-01-22 Thread jano trouba
From: Tim Prince <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Questions about porting from Linux to Windows... Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 05:52:28 -0800 You are going way beyond the scope of this list. A mingw .a library could be linked into an MSVC

Re: Questions about porting from Linux to Windows...

2007-01-22 Thread Tim Prince
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I am in the process of porting a huge application (> 700 000 lines of code ; C ; Unix/Linux) to Windows. I will not be using cygwin to port the GUI, but the project is based on lots of static libraries. Thus it prompted me with several questions, both techni

Questions about porting from Linux to Windows...

2007-01-22 Thread jano trouba
Hello I am in the process of porting a huge application (> 700 000 lines of code ; C ; Unix/Linux) to Windows. I will not be using cygwin to port the GUI, but the project is based on lots of static libraries. Thus it prompted me with several questions, both technical and commercial. I wi