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From: Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>
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"Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> writes:

> "Pascal Obry" <p.obry@wanadoo.fr> wrote in message
> news:ur8lnd5o4.fsf@wanadoo.fr...
> > work with. Of course it is always a bit tricky to build Open Source
> softwares
> > on this platform (it is quite easier to use the Microsoft Compiler and
> > environment), but with a bit of effort it is possible to build a lot of
> the
> > nice tools we have on Unix (thanks to Cygwin).
> >
> In what way is it tricky to build Open Source software on Windows? Can you
> not build Open Source software using a Microsoft compiler? Maybe you can't
> give away their part of the software but it would seem that anything you
> build is yours.

I don't understand this part.

> Or do you mean that much Open Source software is developed for various
> flavors of Unix and hence doesn't always translate well to Windows?

Ok, I meant that.

> Just trying to understand where you're going with this. Lots of us use Ada
> on PC's with Windows and I don't think that precludes development of Open
> Source (depending on your definition of "Open Source" too...)

Well, I also use a lot Ada, but to build GCC/GNAT, GDB, Emacs, CVS (pserver),
gpg, AWS, GLADE, AdaSockets, OpenSSL, OpenSSH, GDBM... you really need to have
a UNIX like environment. Or you need to port the software to avoid using
GNU/configure, GNU/automake or GNU/autoconf tools or whatever UNIX oriented
part that just does not work on Windows.

Pascal.

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