Re: Current status of Cygwin port

[Nicola Pero]

> > I tried to build GNUstep on a Cygwin (1.3.10) / XFree (4.1.0) / Window
> > Maker (0.8.0) / gcc (3.1) environment running under WinXP Pro.   The
> > problems that keep GNUstep's core/base from being built are in the make
> > files: dlltool is called without the complete parameters (I ran it manually
> > and it succeeded), then dllwrap (I stopped there, but it seems that again
> > it's called with incomplete parameters).
> 
> What I suspect someone _really_ needs to do is write a backend native to the 
> Win32 GDI (? is it the gdi i'm thinking of ?) *grin*
> Any voulenteers?

We already have a native Win32 backend.  It's very experimental as far as
I know, and maybe is not really usable in real life - but it's there and
if you want to try it out or do some work on it or just contribute a
couple of bug fixes or some code to it, you are welcome. :-)