Re: [Firebird-devel] Re: QA Windows

[Mark O'D. <mar...@lu...>]

Andy Canfield wrote:

>> This refers to running TCS with the MKS toolkit. AFAIK this
>> toolkit is not a free one, so I would recommend to use
>> Cygwin instead.
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> On this job I inherited an old DOS version of the MKS toolkit. When I contacted them about it a couple of years ago they said a new version costs four hundred dollars (US).
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I'd go with the cygwin kit, since it's basicaly pretty much identical to 
the linux one, and we are likely to be able to share the same shell scripts.

The MKS toolkit, while good at the time (in particular I remember it 
under win3.1/DOS which was a real trick) I think has had it's day and 
cannot compete with cygwin.  Cygwin is pretty good, and I have a fair 
suspicion, since it includes the gcc compiler, that you could even get a 
version of the ib/fb server compiled with it.  Most unix program, 
including x11 have been ported to win32 using it.

Cheers

Mark

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