It is very nice of you, Dr A Olowofoyeku, to provide such a binary. But why is it labelled as gpc-19991111-etc? The latest source I could find was gpc-19991030, from ftp://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/gnu-pascal/alpha/. BTW, could gpc provide a CVS source, so that we can fetch the latest snapshot?

---------- From: Dr A Olowofoyeku[SMTP:laa12@law.keele.ac.uk] Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 4:22 AM To: Mark Taylor; gpc@gnu.de Subject: Re: Mingw version of GPC based on latest GCC 2.95?

On 8 Mar 00, at 9:58, Mark Taylor wrote:

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Has anyone built the Cygwin or Mingw version of GPC based on the latest GCC 2.95?

Does anyone plan to do this?

I have built a Cygwin compiler (which is also able to produce Mingw programs), for gcc 2.95.2. You can download it from: ftp://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/home/chief/

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If not, I will have a go myself, but this might be a big effort as I have never built GCC or GPC before. If anyone can offer pointers I would be most gratefull.

It is relatively straightforward to build a Cygwin compiler, as long as you have the full and latest Cygwin distribution. I am due to write some notes for building GPC on Cygwin, but I don't have the time yet. If you can understand bash scripts, I can send you the (commented) bash script that I use to automate all the steps. You should be able to work from that.

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If successfull, I would then be in a position to offer my services in helping with further development of the compiler. Something I would be interested in would be recoding GPC in Pascal (I am sure this would make it easier for more people to contribute their help) - would this be feasible, or does GPC *have* to be coded in C for some reason?

Yes. AFAIK all GNU compilers *have* to be coded in C. Large parts of the GPC runtime library are of course coded in Pascal.

Best regards, The Chief ----- Dr Abimbola A Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) Email: African_Chief@bigfoot.com Author of Chief's Installer Pro v5.22 for Win32 http://www.bigfoot.com/~African_Chief/chief32.htm