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Re: Building collect2 for C?

From: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
To: stl at caltech dot edu
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 19:55:09 -0500
Subject: Re: Building collect2 for C?
References: <20040317004430.5FB5A109A20@earth-ox.its.caltech.edu>

> Now, obsoleting DJGPP is probably a bad idea, but of those 314 downloads per
> day, how many do you think were from confused people who don't know what
> they want?  As far as I can tell, MinGW /supersedes/ DJGPP on Windows,
> especially on NT-based Windows like XP.

This is getting way off-topic, but I tell EVERYONE who mentions win32
programming that DJGPP is wrong for them (although it used to support
it, somewhat).  However, I've talked with lots of people who still use
DJGPP, and their reasons are quite valid.

References:
- Re: Building collect2 for C?
  - From: Stephan T. Lavavej

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