[vtkusers] VTK Builds on Cygwin

[Sebastien BARRE]

At 26/01/2001 14:42, William A. Hoffman wrote:

>I mean gcc compiler.   If you add the flags -mno-cygwin to the build,
>it will use the native Microsoft libraries and not cygwin.dll,

So it does mean that we can get rid of the good ol' pcmaker now ? :)

>so no GPL problems.

What were the GPL problems ?

>   I have only tried the c++ part, but Mumit did the tcl build.

OK. That's very interesting. Good news.
I'm a bit skeptical about Python and Java. Porting to Cygwin is not a 
trivial task (I helped porting Perl 5 to Cygwin), and I'm not aware of 
Python or Java ports to this specific environment (although I did not 
search very thoroughly :)).

I would be curious to know about some comparisons between both native- and 
Cygwin- generated DLL's. Did you run the regression tests with the Cygwin 
build ? Could Mumit run the Sphere Benchmark with both ? What is the size 
of the build/dll ? I love gcc, but it's much slower than MSVC++, did you 
notice how much slower it was on a whole build ?

Thanks :)