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Re: C compiler for Win 95/98
- From: "Stephan T. Lavavej" <stl at caltech dot edu>
- To: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 22:16:37 -0800
- Subject: Re: C compiler for Win 95/98
- Reply-to: <stl at caltech dot edu>
[Christopher Faylor]
> MinGW uses DLLs just like every single other windows
> executable.
Yes, but those DLLs are part of Windows. So the applications that MinGW
produces look like they run standalone.
> Cygwin is intended to provide a UNIX-like environment on
> Windows.
And thus should not be recommended to people who just want to compile C++
(or C, as the case may be) on Windows.
Stephan T. Lavavej
http://nuwen.net