Jim Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It provides a substrate that makes it practical for volunteers to provide >> free tools to you on Windows. > > Plenty of people provide free tools without using cygwin. I've even done > it myself.
Okay, a clarification: "...to provide these and similar free tools...". Or even longer: the practical way to port a GCC cross-compiler (and other tools with a similar heritage) to Windows is to use Cygwin. But don't take my word for it -- go and look at other such ports, such as the PS2 or Symbian ones. > No-one has yet answered my question, though, and you should be able to. > Why is cygwin required to **use** prc-tools? Do the tools rely on it > internally? You don't need me to answer that. Go to http://cygwin.com/ and find out what Cygwin is; then look at GCC and particularly its build infra- structure [1] and see what they want from a host OS. Run cygcheck on m68k-palmos-gcc.exe and think about the implications. If you're not willing to do those things, I don't see why you should expect better answers than "because that's the way it is" and "duh, yes". But in fact you've received several in any case... John "agreeing with Eron's nose" [1] The fact that it's largely the build infrastructure that really wants a Unix shell and tools makes the MinGW option vaguely feasible, but it's probably not a coincidence that none of me, Sony, Symbian, and now PalmSource have felt that the investment was worth it just to cut down on rants from people like you :-). -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
