Re: [line-devel] Oops

[Michael V. <mi...@bl...>]

On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Nelson Rush wrote:

> I apologize, I just read the docs/overview readme which states:
>
> "Finally instead of reimplementing all the Linux syscalls itself, LINE
> simply
> uses the Cygwin API which already provides a POSIX-like enviroment. Most of
> the syscalls are just redirected to their Cygwin equivalents."
>
> Which of course explains why my attempts at getting LINE to compile in MSVC
> are futile.

Yes, LINE pretty much requires Cygwin.  Not so much for the gcc compiler,
although it does use some gcc C extensions (as you discovered with the log
macros), but more for the Cygwin runtime environment.

Also since Cygwin is GPLed, you can be sure that everybody will be
able to build it themselves.  Although I will admit that the MSVC debugger
is much nicer :)

Mike