From: ulittj00 AT mcl DOT ucsb DOT edu (Joshua Little) Subject: Fw: lcc-win32 vs. mingw32/gnuwin32 18 Jan 1998 11:32:17 -0800 Message-ID: <01bd14cb$13c5f920$7ffd6f80.cygnus.gnu-win32@Slittj00.ucsb.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: -----Original Message----- From: Pedro A. Aranda Gutiirrez To: Joshua J Little Date: Monday, December 15, 1997 12:14 AM Subject: Re: lcc-win32 vs. mingw32/gnuwin32 >Hi, > >I've taken all the weekend to go through pro's and con's of both >solutions and here are my thoughts. I hope they help you > >LCC+ >a) LCC is better at Petzold's examples >b) exceptions are supported on LCC >c) the headers are somehow more complete on LCC > >LCC- >a) LCC chokes on GNU code quite frequently >b) Forget about recompiling a whole GNU project >c) The auxiliary tools are somewhat poor. > >GCC+ >a) It doesn't take too much to have LCC's WIN32 headers working with GCC > >b) Recompiling GNU utilities is quite easy, even with the MINGW32 >toolchain >c) You should have more or less everything you already know from your >workstation > >GCC- >a) Exception support on plain vanilla C code is missing >b) I'd really love to see GCC understanding #pragma pack(), but there is >a >sort of fundamentalism in the GNU community against it > >Cheers, > > >-- > > +--------------------------------------------------------+ > | #### Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez | > | #### ATM Networks Division | > | #### Telefonica I+D C./ Emilio Vargas, 6 | > | ==== E-28043 Madrid, Spain | > | ==== mailto:paag AT tid DOT es Tlf +34-1-337 47 02 | > | ==== FAX +34-1-337 45 02 | > +--------------------------------------------------------+ > > > - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".