Re: GNUstep on Cygwin

[Fred Kiefer]

To keep you informed on my (minimal) progress with Cygwin:

- Cygwin components with the added objc.dll work ok. It seems to me 
currently the simplest way of getting GNUstep running on Windows. In the 
long run MinGW looks nicer, as we don't need the extra library. When CVS 
is up again I will document the Cygwin components needed.

- When gcc is started without the --no-cygwin switch __WIN32__ wont be 
defined, but __CYGWIN32__ is. We should adopt some base code (file name 
mangling) to this.

- gdomap works, but gdnc doesn't. When started without fork (gdnc -f) it 
behaves correctly. No idea what causes this. Any advice on further 
checks is welcome.

- There is a problem with time zones. Even when TZ is set to GMT I get 
an error message. I will look into this deeper today.

- I found a way to wrok around the image drawing bug in winlib. What I 
did is just copy some complicated lines over from XGGState and now it 
works. I will submit this when CVS is available again. Still I would 
like to understand why this is needed. My feeling is that these 
complicated operations are not needed and are an artefact of incorrect 
flipped view handling further up.

- The next step will be font enumeration.

Cheers
Fred