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Re: GNU GCC version 3 for Windows or DOS


Hello Andris,

(A Latvian! I am half Latvian! :)

> > We are currently developing embedded software using GCC version 2.97 on
> > Windows (DOS) platform. This works fine, except that we cannot use long
> > filenames. Therefore, when will GCC version 3 be available for Windows
>
>(--host=i[3456]86-pc-msdosdjgpp ....). If so then please see DJGPP FAQ
>about how to use LFN under WinNT (You will need special driver for that).

It would be better to move to cygwin (or a native *NIX). My experience with 
the djgpp-hosted compiler is that it is quite unstable, and under Windows 
2000 VERY unstable. Compiling large projects, you'll see random error 
messageboxes from Windows. Run the same compile operation again and the 
error will happen somewhere else.



-- Lewin A.R.W. Edwards
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though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who 
neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight 
that knows not victory nor defeat."
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