Author: Adrien Regimbald
Date: 02:05:03 08/10/00
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Hi, >I found it was a snap for me to use, but I always use it from the shell, and I >also programmed in UNIX for many years. I really like the Cygwin port of GCC, >as it produces excellent code. They have a new install system that makes it >particularly easy to install. You can get it from Redhat. By the time I had tried cygwin, I too had amassed a fair ammount of *NIX programming experience. I didn't have any problems with installation, and I am extremely familiar with command line compilation, as well as makefiles and other typical gcc skills. Despite this, I would sometimes have problems with the most trivial of programs where cygwin would give me a host of errors that couldn't have possibly come from any sane compilation of what was in my code! If I recall correctly, they were linking errors to do with functions I sure wasn't using.. these sources all compiled cleanly without even a warning on every other *NIX system I could get my grubby fingers on, so I have trouble believing it was something I was doing wrong. I don't know, perhaps I had a faulty build (this was from at least a year or two ago)? Even issues of build problems aside, I still wouldn't recommend it to someone starting out though.. Regards, Adrien.
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