From: "Jan Bares" <jan DOT bares AT antek DOT cz DOT no DOT spam>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: I want to migrate from VC to free Win32 compiler
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 09:51:35 +0200
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> Did you look at section 3.6 of the DJGPP FAQ list?  It answers some of
> these questions.

Yes. That was the reason why I am now confused.
What exactly does RSXNTDJ? I searched the documentation but I don't
understand where this cross-compiler is inserted. C(++) -> RSXNTDJ ->
djgpp -> Win EXE/DLL? Or something else?

From the FAQ is understood that there are big problems with RSXNTDJ, Cygnus
and Mingw.

>
> > When I look to djgpp, cygnus, mingw, I see lot of utilities and binaries
> > that doesn't fit into this idea. Why I need cross compiler
>
> If you refer to RSXNTDJ, the reason is because native DJGPP tools cannot
> produce executables in the Windows format.  The cross-compiler fixes that.
>
> > why I need 4MB DLL for Cygnus
>
> Because Cygwin simulates a Posix system on top of non-Posix Windows.
> Providing all the missing functionality takes lots of code.  (Btw, 4MB
> is the unstripped size of the DLL; if you strip it, you are left with
> something like 500KB.)

OK, But I don't need POSIX. I don't want to port Unix applications to
Windows, I just need to compile my Windows application.

BTW: How do those compilers support Microsoft extensions?

Regards, Jan