Re: gcc + Windows + general questions

[Soeren Grimm <soeren at viatronix dot net>]

Hi,

thank you for the answers. But somehow the link http://www.ming.org/
is not working ?

regards,
Soeren


Jeff Sturm wrote:

> On Thu, 10 May 2001, Soeren Grimm wrote:
> > Is it possible to compile pure windows application with gcc?
>
> Yes.  You need some related tools, including assembler, linker and runtime
> headers for MSVCRT.
>
> Find all of these and more at http://www.ming.org/.
>
> > Is it possible to compile Qt applications?
>
> Probably.  Certainly GCC can compile Qt on GNU/Linux.  I understand there
> is a release of Qt just for Windows but I have never even seen it.
>
> > How is the performance compared to the Intel or the Visual C++ 6.0
> > Compiler.
>
> Compile-time performance, or quality of the generated code?  You'll
> probably find the former a bit slower, especially for C++ code heavy with
> templates.
>
> > I am not sure of i am allowed to ask this, but i ask this anyway ;-)
> > Is there a way to integrate the gcc into the Visual C++ environment,
> > like
> > the intel compiler?
>
> <shrug> no idea.  Why not give it a try and see?
>
> Jeff