How do I avoid buying MSVC++?

Thu Dec 24 07:49:00 GMT 1998

If you are just looking for Win32 programming (not porting Unix apps), have
you looked at LCC for Win32? The mailing list is lcc@cs.princeton.edu. LCC
is just a compiler, not a complete Unix-like environment like Cygwin - but
there is a very good quality Win32 version of LCC that is actively being
developed and may suit your purposes.
Regards,
 Dan Haynes
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com [ mailto:owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com]On
> Behalf Of Max Hadley
> Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 1998 1:50 PM
> To: Cygwin mailing list
> Subject: How do I avoid buying MSVC++?
>>> Dear Cygwin list,
>> After much messing around, involving a complete new second installation
> of Windows NT, I *think* I have got b20.1 installed. Cygnus, it's only
> *your* Installshield installer that fails every time on my original NT.
> It would be nice if there was a text file or SOMETHING that spells out
> exactly what the installer does in the registry & environment, as I had
> to spelunk it out of one registry & edit it into the other. Not
> pleasant.
>> I can build a 'hello world' console application happily.
>> Now I need to build win32 API code, supplied by a third party, to drive
> a PCI card in the PC. Here is my makefile (I'm using MKS make, not GNU):
>> HEADERS := windecl.h
> SOURCES := ntcdemo.c
> OBJECTS := $(SOURCES:db:+"$(O)")
> LIBRARIES := ntgpib.lib
>> CFLAGS += -g -pedantic -Wall -mwindows
>> ntcdemo.exe : $(OBJECTS) $(LIBRARIES)
>> .PRECIOUS $(OBJECTS) : $(HEADERS)
>> BTW my default value of CFLAGS is null. This generates a bunch of lines
> like this (ellipses mark deletions):
>> susato[230] $ make
> gcc -o ntcdemo.exe ntcdemo.o ntgpib.lib
> //E/cygwin/cygwin-b20/H-i586-cygwin32/i586-cygwin32/bin/ld:
> ntgpib.lib(NTGPIB.dll): warning: ignoring duplicate section `.text'
> //E/cygwin/cygwin-b20/H-i586-cygwin32/i586-cygwin32/bin/ld:
> ntgpib.lib(NTGPIB.dll): warning: ignoring duplicate section `.idata5ドル'
> ...
> ...
> ntcdemo.o: In function `WinMain':
> //E/Users/max/progs/WAVstuff/temp/ntcdemo.c:89: undefined reference to
> `LoadCursorA@8'
> //E/Users/max/progs/WAVstuff/temp/ntcdemo.c:90: undefined reference to
> `GetStockObject@4'
> //E/Users/max/progs/WAVstuff/temp/ntcdemo.c:93: undefined reference to
> `RegisterClassA@4'
> //E/Users/max/progs/WAVstuff/temp/ntcdemo.c:97: undefined reference to
> `GetSystemMetrics@4'
> ...
> ...
> ntcdemo.o: In function `MainMessageHandler':
> //E/Users/max/progs/WAVstuff/temp/ntcdemo.c:166: undefined reference to
> `GetDC@4'
> //E/Users/max/progs/WAVstuff/temp/ntcdemo.c:167: undefined reference to
> `GetStockObject@4'
> //E/Users/max/progs/WAVstuff/temp/ntcdemo.c:168: undefined reference to
> `SelectObject@8'
> //E/Users/max/progs/WAVstuff/temp/ntcdemo.c:169: undefined reference to
> `GetTextMetricsA@8'
> ...
> ...
> //E/Users/max/progs/WAVstuff/temp/ntcdemo.c:246: undefined reference to
> `DefWindowProcA@16'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: Error code 1
> susato[231] $
>> So what is going wrong? I assume some windows libraries are not getting
> linked, but how do I find out which? Why all the duplicate sections
> warnings from the board vendor's library?
>> Assuming this code works with MSVC++ (& I have no reason to assume it
> doesn't) is it possible to make it work with CYGWIN? Or do I have to get
> MSVC++ to use this card I have just bought.
>> Thanks in advance, and Merry Christmas
>> Max Hadley
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