Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 17:32:11 -0500
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From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: To DJGPP authors: do you consider native win support?
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> Do the authors of DJGPP consider including built-in support for creating
> windows applications in the future?

Since I work on Cygwin, I shouldn't myself do anything to DJGPP to
make it compete directly with Cygwin, although others are welcome to
do it themselves.

> Maybe the djgpp-, rsxdj-, mingw- makers could join their forces to
> create one compiler for both dos & windows?

There is only one compiler, it's GCC.  You just have to compile it for
each platform you want to support.  DOS and Windows are not the same
platform (in fact, they're very different from gcc's point of view) so
it's not really *that* practical to constrain it to a single set of
binaries.

I really don't see the problem with having multiple builds of gcc,
aside from an initial installation and "getting used to it" period.
I've got both linux and djgpp builds on my box (gcc and pc-gcc, plus
cygwin's i586-pc-cygwin32-gcc) and it works just fine.