----- Original Message -----
From: "Christoph Egger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 9:12 AM
Subject: Re: Building GGI Project on Windows.


>
> Hi John!
>
> Great to know you're back!
>
> > I did the original port to Win32 using CygWin (www.cygwin.com).  I have
> > not done anything in the last couple of months due to time restraints
( I
> > really need to see if the new autoconf/automake stuff works with
> > cygwin...)
> > Hopefully, I will have more time as my work project moves into
> > production...
> >
> > A port to VisualStudio would be nice, but the current environment is
> > really unix-centric.
>
> That's true. Here at my "FH" [1], I have the Borland C++ IDE 5.0 and the
MS
> Visual C++ 6.0.
> But I can't install the DirectX-SDK, because I don't have root-access to
the
> WinNT-Boxes. And if I could, that would be suboptimal, because the chance,
> that the same machine is free to use for me, when I come back the next is
very
> very low. So I had to install it on very much boxes, the Administrator
> surely wouldn't agree with.
> If you know a way to compile the DirectX target without having
Administrator
> access, would be awesome!

You shouldn't need admin acces to install just the sdk. I'll try it here.
Are you using NT4 or 2000?

John

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