Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/08/29/01:36:39
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote:
> > DJGPP is not a compiler neither an OS kernel; it's a library.
>
> Most intros I have read about DJGPP, refer to it as "DJ Delories port of
> the GCC compiler to MSDOS". So I guess that in all fairness DJGPP is a
> compiler. The description of DJGPP as merely a "library", tends not to be
> a fair description or a complete view of DJGPP IMHO.
The problem is that DJGPP is a heavily overloaded term.
When spoken in context like this (``the LGPL means *you* must provide
the latest DJGPP''), DJGPP is not a compiler. It is what djdevNNN.zip
and djlsrNNN.zip include. 95% of that is the DJGPP library.
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