Mon 2003-08-04 20:21, Jerry Coffin (2:292/516.666) wrote to you:

 JC> MSVC out of the box supports _some_ POSIX-like functions (e.g the 
 JC> whole open/creat/lread/lwrite family) but nowhere close to all of 
 JC> them (e.g. fork is missing).

Also missing are some other useful (yet simple) functions like opendir(),
in Visual C++ 6.0 anyway.  I don't know if this has changed in more recent
versions.  Microsoft's emphasis is not on portability or standards
compliance (unsurprisingly).

 JC> The Cygwin port of gcc has its own POSIX layer for Win32.  This 
 JC> has both good and bad points -- it does run under the Win32 
 JC> subsystem (mostly a good thing) and supports some things missing 
 JC> from the MS POSIX subsystem, if I'm not mistaken.  OTOH, some 
 JC> things in it are distressingly slow, and all programs compiled 
 JC> with it require a set of support DLLs (and fairly large ones at 
 JC> that).

A "Hello world." Cygwin apps only requires CYGWIN1.DLL.  For many
programs speed isn't a big issue, particularly on modern CPUs.  I had good
experience earlier this year porting the UNIX version of the timEd FidoNet
mail reader to Cygwin, and its speed is perfectly adequate, although I
wouldn't recommend running it under Windows 9x/ME (due to slow screen
updates) unless you were desperate - but this is more a symptom of the
underlying OS than a fault of Cygwin, eg. the native (non-Cygwin) Win32
version of Msged is also quite slow to update the screen in Win9x/ME.

 JC> 

 JC> At 12:52 AM 8/3/2003 +0100, you wrote:
 JC>  * Author: Robert

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