Mail Archives: cygwin/1998/03/28/11:17:08
In article <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 93 DOT 980319115332 DOT 7918J-100000 AT modi DOT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu>,
Mumit Khan <khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu> wrote:
>The C++ front-end that comes with Gnu-Win32 b19 is rather old and broken
>in quite a few ways; I recommend that you replace the dev. toolchain with
>my pre-built EGCS 1.0.2 distribution. You should also upgrade the binary
>utilities (linker, assembler, etc) available from the same place.
>
>See http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ for download
>and installation info. All it takes is a download and unpacking into the
>existing Cygnus B19 tree.
I can testify that Mumit's EGCS/binutils is great stuff. It cured a couple
of internal gcc compiler errors that I had and it seems to create smaller
executables. Downloading and installing the binaries is time well spent.
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VMS=>UNIX Solutions Boston Business Computing the real can be."
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