From: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: Beginner.Help. 24 Jan 1998 18:10:12 -0800 Message-ID: <19980123145654.26398.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain To: rookboom AT iafrica DOT com Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com First let me say, sorry this is so long in coming. The mail router seems to be having slowness problems. >From: rookboom AT iafrica DOT com >To: >Subject: Beginner.Help. >Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 12:08:45 -0800 > >How do I write a simple Win32 program. >I tried to compile a basic winmain.cpp file but it only screams abuse at >me. >I tried : >g++ winmain.cpp -o winmain.exe gcc winmain.cpp -o winmain.exe -mwindows > >If someone can help I would really apreciate it because I want to program >DirectX >stuff and I don't have money for fancy stuff like Visual C++. > > You might be interested in Colin Peters' site (see the URL list below). It contains a version of gcc which excludes the cygwin.dll which is there to emulate the unix environment. This adds a lot of overhead which is not necessary for strictly programming in Win32. Have a good day. - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- -earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- Check out these great gnu-win32 related sites: ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/latest/ (ftp site) http://www.cygnus.com/pubs/gnupro/ (Comercial Page) http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/ (Project Page) http://www.cygnus.com/ml/gnu-win32 (Mail Archives) http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/winhelp-man-pages/ (HTML Man Pages) http://www.lexa.ru/sos (Sergey Okhapkin) ftp://www.lexa.ru/pub/domestic/sos/ (Sergey's ftp site) http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/gcc.html (Colin Peters) http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ (Mumit Khan) http://gnu-win32.paranoia.ru (Chuck Bogorad's ports) ftp://ftp.deninc.com/pub (Den Internet Services - US mirror and ports) http://www.bestweb.net/~aka/gnu-win32/ (GNU-Win32 Bash Configuration) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - 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".