Newbie instructions for building gcj for Windows

Jeff Sturm jsturm@one-point.com
Wed Jun 26 22:48:00 GMT 2002


On 26 Jun 2002, Adam Megacz wrote:
> Isn't that what CYGWIN.DLL (and its headers) is, or am I missing
> something?

>From my recollection, cygwin.dll provides posix-like system call
emulation, but not stdio, malloc/free, etc.

About all they have in common is mingw-runtime, which supplies the most
basic stub libraries needed to interface with the win32 subsystem.

Just out of curiousity, I'm kicking a cygwin bootstrap now...

Jeff



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