Subject: Re: Compiling for PC
To: Andrew Gillham <gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com>
From: Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/08/1997 08:03:03
>Ty Sarna wrote:
>> > Right now, I'm trying to port it into Visual C++ 5.0 (just because I'm 
>> > used to it)  if anyone has done this successfully; please let me know; 
>> > I'm having a hell of a time doing it.

>> Native compiling is by far the easiest route.  Cross-compiling from
>> another unixoid system is a bit of a job.  Trying to cross compile from
>> an MS platform is the most uh...  optimistic...  plan I've read in quite
>> some time :-)

>Hmm, anyone remember the "PCBSD" port that somebody was working on?
>(getting 386BSD binary compatibility under OS/2 wasn't it?)
>Now if only there was a NetBSD subsystem for NT.. :)

http://www.softway.com/

It's not NetBSD, but it's a full Unix subsystem for NT, and it works
pretty darn well.

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