Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 14:17:48 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Is cygwin really for me? (Need c++ compiler) Message-ID: <20040119191748.GA17537@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 02:13:39PM -0500, Andrew Sasak wrote: >I've been a cygwin user for quite a while, but I still consider myself >a newbie. I have access to Visual C++ 6.0, but not permanently. I >want to be able to compile c++ code that I can easily distribute >without licensing problems (because I write software for a University >research lab, at some point may want to write shareware software, etc). >Currently I only need to compile for Windows computers, but I would >like to be able to compile, or at least write code that can be >compiled, on both Win and Linux systems. For this reason I have been >using cygwin g++ with the -mno-cygwin flag. Lately I'm wondering if >this is really the best option for me. I would appreciate any input >that anybody can give me about different development enviroments, >compilers, etc. Whatever input you get, it will have to be personal email. Non-cygwin compilers or environments are hardly fodder for this mailing list. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/