[Discuss] Essentially all free apps will soon be available on Windows

[D. S.]

On 2/15/07, Alan W. Irwin <irwin at beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote:
> One such flavour is Cygwin, but I have to say that our experiences with
> Cygwin libraries has not been that good.  However, most of those libraries
> are currently built with autotools, and I expect the reliability of the
> results to rapidly improve as more and more free software packages convert
> to the CMake build system (which provides a special back end for the Cygwin
> case).

Nice... I recently ported pico lisp to Cygwin , and I ended up
generating the Makefile by hand as the project was relatively simple.
The differences in shared library creation was something that I had to
take into account (.so's vs .dll's) but file/record locking
differences from Cygwin and linux was really frustrating. It will be
be interesting to see how CMake handles things.