-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Another option for a development environment is microsoft's windows services for unix: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=896C9688-601B-44F1-81A4-02878FF11778&displaylang=en If you want to use an ide, which uses mingw as the compiler, check out dev-c++: http://www.bloodshed.net/dev/devcpp.html It's fairly accessible with wineyes, a bit more so after I created a set file and key label dictionary for it. As for a win32 tutorial, I found: http://winprog.org/tutorial/ to be useful. Since we're discussing this on here, does anyone know of anything for c/c++ that would abstract the win32 api a bit more, so it wouldn't be such a chore to program for it, making it a bit easier to write win32 applications? Thanks. Greg On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 09:49:37PM -0500, Doug Sutherland wrote: > The simplest windows programming environment for a linux programmer > is of course GNU C, which you have already mentioned. Cygwin is more > full functioned than MinGW but more complex and has a few quirks that > I really do not like, for example it's installation process is bizarre and > annoying, the way it maps windows directories to unix naming is weird, > the options for file types can be confusing, and I found that sometimes > its impossible to remove all of cygwin. It creates some files that just > cannot be deleted, I hate software that does that. On the other hand > it's an impressive environment, you can almost have it look exactly > like a linux machine.I have used Cygwin and MinGW and I have to > say that MinGW was simple in the way I like it. I do not like complex > development environments. I don't want to spend a week just to > figure out how to do hello world. MinGW is faster to get actually > programming with, and although limited in comparison, was just > right for my needs. It has the win32 API: > > http://www.mingw.org/docs.shtml#win32api > > I did some win32 with this and I loved it because it's GNU and very > straightforward. The Win32 API however is extremely complex and > very annoying. Surprised? <g> Your battle will be more one of > understanding the win32 API that one of tools. It can take quite a > while to do the simplest of things with win32. I would recommend > looking for some small tutorials, that's what I did and found a few > that got me started. Find a getting started tutorial for MinGW and > look for really simple win32 examples. I didn't do any win32 serial > code but you can most likely find some examples on the net. > I don't know anything about SAPI. > > -- Doug > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGe0QF7s9z/XlyUyARAr9VAJ9Q4DhtxWl6bd6Qgxosh67tY8ztSACgxUEf 2I8gFT7o1+4dP96aW6Ro3Rw= =xtxk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
