Hi, Brian / List, Although I cant agree more that moving to a *nix O/S for both developing and running a mud is without doubt the "best" solution Cygwin is often the only practical route some ppl have. I would like to add that Cygwin is available free (http://www.cygwin.com) and gcc / gdb are included with the distribution
Personally, (if any of you read my earlier post) I think that the ROM community should encourage ppl to use Cygwin if they are not prepared or are do not have access to a real Unix O/S. I have to say I'm suppressed by the lack of response from my previous posting .. I know most of the folks on the list will be running Unix as I do myself .. Cygwin is if nothing else a great stepping stone .. I can say it helped me greatly. So whilst not advocating it as the best solution we should help those who have no realistic alternative by providing a faq at the least, or ideally creating a patch / update to the ROM source containing a Makefile and some of the modifications recently discussed again on this list.. I would be glad to help out but I no longer have a version of Cygwin installed Id love to hear anyone's thoughts / feedback on this subject. Balo. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Reus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 4:48 AM Subject: Re: GDB in Virtual Unix environment > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stainless" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "ROM Mailing List" <[email protected]>; "Tom Whiting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 2:11 PM > Subject: Re: GDB in Virtual Unix environment > > > <Snip flame war> > > Let me say that Linux is 100 percent free.. you can down load it from > www.redhat.com and if you have a good isp, you can connect it to the > internet too.. now you just have to remove the security faults. A Linux box > without telnetd/rshd/sshd/rlogind may be secure and a mud will still run on > it. you can get a mud to run for free, instead of paying for WinNT and I > know that Cygwin isn't free either.. (I downloaded it 2 or 3 years ago). > gcc/gdb comes with linux > > > -- > ROM mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom
