Re: lynx-dev lynx under CYGWIN [patch]

[T.E.Dickey]

> I decided to play with the CYGWIN comiler on a Win98 machine. I was 
> able to get a working binary with the following patch, compiling 
> with SLang. I haven't tried PDCurses yet, so the keymap patch is 
> tentative as regards PDCurses. I used the configure script under bash 
> to generate makefiles and lynx_cfg.h, although cygwin ran out of 
> processes and required multiple runs with modified configure scripts 
> (ulimit -u was only 63). The SLang changes that I made ifdef UNIX are 
> ifdef REAL_UNIX_SYSTEM in slang.h. 
>  
> Has anyone else been using CYGWIN? 

a little (I've not found it as robust as djgpp).  I went back to it yesterday
for some testing (vile and ncurses) and had no trouble building.  (running
non-cygwin binaries from bash tends to give gpf's, though they can also
"go away" mysteriously).

>                                Doug 

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