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Re: lynx-dev Win32 & SSL


From: dickey
Subject: Re: lynx-dev Win32 & SSL
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 20:40:46 -0500 (EST)

> 
> 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. 

I've looked at b19 a few times, but seem to be the only person who finds
it a little unreliable.  (I installed a copy on one of my machines each
at home and work to do some test-compiles).  Perhaps b20 will be more
interesting.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
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