Re: [AD] Cygwin ports

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George Foot <gfoot@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>First, I don't really see what would be gained by porting the
>Unix version to cygwin; but I can see that it's useful if the
>regular mingw32 version works fine with cygwin even without
>"-mno-cygwin", in case users want to use cygwin features from
>their own code which also uses Allegro. I think Henrik just
>said that this works anyway, so that's cool. :)

I did'n say that. Sven said the allegro demo etc. worked without -mno-cygwin,
not lowlevel allegro code. That requires some work.

>The only licensing implication is for
>the user who wants to distribute an executable; they'd have to
>either distribute source or pay the commercial licence fee.
>That's their "fault" for using cygwin features, it's the bargain
>they make.

Be sure to DOCUMENT THAT IN BOLD TEXT IN THE README FILE! :o)

Yours sincerely
-Henrik Stokseth.





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