From:	Damian Yerrick <MYNAMEISd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comNO2CANNEDHAM>
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Subject:	Re: windows compiler and tutorial?
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khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu (Mumit Khan) wrote in message
<85dlch$cn58$1 AT news DOT doit DOT wisc DOT edu>...
>Damian Yerrick  <REPLYTOd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comNO2CANNEDHAM> wrote:
>>  3. Another GCC port called Cygwin32. Only use this if you are GPLing
>>     your programs and you are not distributing binaries on a floppy
>>     (Cygwin binaries need a 4 MB DLL whose header files are GPLed).
>
>You seem to really enjoy quoting "4 MB DLL" ;-) It's actually about
>~450k (Cygwin b20.1) stripped, and possibly ~500k for newer snapshots.

Still cuts seriously into floppy and Internet distributions of
precompiled binaries, and still has the GPL restriction on the
DLL stub (can't legally write MP3 or GIF encoders with it).

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