Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/05/23/00:50:23
What is a good place to get mingw32?
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Josh Haglund
lhaglund AT wiktel DOT com
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From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2000 10:18 PM
Subject: Re: windows version of Crafty
> On 22 May 2000 11:08:10 GMT, buers AT gmx DOT de (Dieter Buerssner) wrote:
>
> >Damian Yerrick wrote:
> >
> >>On 21 May 2000 20:13:28 GMT, buers AT gmx DOT de (Dieter Buerssner) wrote:
> >>>The easiest option you have, is to download wcrafty.x.y.exe or compile
> >>>it with MSVC (which also will give a faster executable).
> >>
> >>What about mingw32?
> >
> >I don't know, what you are refering this to.
>
> It's my standard response to the "can't open a pipe between DOS and
> Win32 apps" FAQ. It's still a GNU environment.
>
> >It should be possible
> >to compile crafty with mingw32. It would need some Makefile hacking.
>
> But not very much if you already have a working DJGPP makefile;
> DJGPP and mingw32 are both GNU make + GCC + GNU binutils.
>
> >When you are refering to the speed. Due to the author of crafty,
> >MSVC will compile the fastest crafty executable, almost 30% faster
> >than gcc compiled.
>
> MSVC costs USD 200; the optimizer costs USD 300 extra.
> Not very cheap for amateur hackers.
>
> >I can confirm this (and I tried many Compiler switches).
>
> What about these?
> -O3 -mpentium -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer
>
> >One can also see it at the assembler level.
>
> From what I've read, unoptimized GCC output is total cr4p.
>
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