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Re: lynx-dev What *is* DJGPP ...?


From: Doug Kaufman
Subject: Re: lynx-dev What *is* DJGPP ...?
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 10:42:49 -0800 (PST)

On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Kim DeVaughn wrote:

> I see alot of references to "DJGPP" in various messages, as well
> in the code (a`la ifdef's), but I've no idea what it actually is,
> nor what the acronym stands for (other that it is some kind of
> DOS'ish thingy ... someone's compiler, or ???).

This is just the DOS port of GNU GCC. It was ported by DJ Delorie,
so it is DJ's GCC and G++. Since plain DOS doesn't allow "+" in
filenames, it became DJGPP. This allows porting of most unix
programs to DOS, although you can't make the limits of the
operating system go away (e.g. no fork). For more information see
"http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/";. DJ Delorie did the first port of
lynx to DOS, but Wayne Buttles (who I believe did the first MSWindows
port), soon became the defacto maintainer of the DOS port. See
"http://www.fdisk.com/doslynx/lynxport.htm";.

The compiler defines __DJGPP__ when it runs, hence the 
#ifdef __DJGPP__ in the code.
                            Doug
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