Mail Archives: djgpp/2013/05/25/12:42:02
> Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 08:56:19 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Georg Potthast <dosusb AT googlemail DOT com>
>
> As long as you do not access the hardware directly it is really easy to port a DJGPP program to MinGW.
Did you actually try that? My experience in porting to MinGW is
exactly the opposite: DJGPP has a lot of Posix-like features that
MinGW sorely lacks. So porting to MinGW using a DJGPP port as a
starting point will generally give you a broken port, and in many
cases will simply refuse to compile or link.
Besides, starting with DJGPP will automatically lose the advanced
features you can have with Windows: networking, threads, parallel
processes, etc.
DJ's suggestion to use MinGW is still valid, of course (although MinGW
still doesn't support generation of 64-bit executables; you need to go
to semi-official MinGW64 snapshots). But please don't underestimate
the efforts required for porting a non-trivial package to MinGW.
Heck, even running a configure script is a challenge, and requires an
installation of yet another environment (MSYS).
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