Re: lynx-dev Win32 & SSL

[Benjamin C. W. Sittler]

On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, Doug Kaufman wrote:

> On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, Benjamin C. W. Sittler wrote:
> 
> > I must point out that there is a free win32 compiler based on the GNU C
> > compiler (gcc) at:
> > 
> >   http://WWW.Cygnus.Com/
> > 
> > I was able to cimpile and run both ncurses and Lynx 2.8.1 with almost no
> > problems. It even supports color styles!
> > 
> > (The one change I had to make was adding an entry for the Cygnus GNU-Win32
> > environment to the configure script.)
> 
> If you can, please submit a patch for allowing cygwin compilation.
> I think that you are the only person to say recently that you were
> able to get a working lynx via cygwin. Previous people compiling with
> cygwin were never willing to give the details to the list. Did you
> actually use cygwin or mingw32?

I used cygwin, not mingw32. I used ncurses. I'll build the latest devel
version tonight or tomorrow and send the diffs. I'd like to see what's new
:) Oh yes, I'm using Cygnus GNU-Win32 B19, not B20. I hear there are
significant differences in the newer release, but I haven't tried it.