Author: James Swafford
Date: 00:25:30 07/10/99
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On July 10, 1999 at 02:34:08, Christophe Theron wrote: >On July 10, 1999 at 02:29:34, Pete Galati wrote: > >>On July 10, 1999 at 02:06:25, hgkjhg wrote: >> >>>I have downloaded gcc tar.gz file from the internet. But when i use winzip to >>>extract the files, winzip asks what's inside gcc-2.8.1.-tar.gz and it will not >>>correctly unzip the files. So what should i do. >>>Thanks. >>>And to James Robertson, >>>I didn't have enough time to right my real name, Bobby, but if you've really got >>>a problem, meet me at Central Park. No offense. >> >>You need 2 gnu utilities. You need gunzip and tar. And if that's a download of >>DJGPP's gcc then it's a DOS compiler not a Windows 95 compiler, and there is no >>way posible to use it to compile a Winboard program if that's what your goal is. >>They need to be compiled as win32. >> >>Pete > >DJGPP is *great* for everyday work. Then when you have a good version (and 200Mb >to waste on your hard disk) you install Visual C and compile a Win32 version. It >is quite easy with some #if in your code to have the same sources for both >versions. That's what I do. > > > Christophe I can't tell you how good it is, but Cygnus has a Win32 / gcc compiler (cygwin32). I downloaded it the other day, and plan to port my code over pretty soon. -- James
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