Path: news.mv.net!news.shore.net!newsfeed.mathworks.com!feeder.via.net!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news3.rdc1.on.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: AndrewJ Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Silly question . . . Message-ID: References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 26 Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 19:37:37 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.42.120.18 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT home DOT net X-Trace: news3.rdc1.on.home.com 967837057 24.42.120.18 (Fri, 01 Sep 2000 12:37:37 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 12:37:37 PDT Organization: Excite AT Home - The Leader in Broadband Xref: news.mv.net comp.os.msdos.djgpp:103053 >I hope this doesn't sound like a rediculous question. . . Not really. >If DJGPP does not use .dll files and is thus unsuitabale for Windows apps, Just because it does not use DLL's doesn't mean it's unsuitable for creating Windows apps. DLL's are not the only criteria, you know. >What do the majority of prgrammers use DJGPP for? Programming. What else /could/ it be used for? >Please don't laugh. I am a newbie and I'm trying to get a handle on DJGPP, DJGPP/GNU is a suite of compilers, interpreters, libraries, headers, scripts and various other doohickeys. >programmers preferences and the like. Uh... preferences? I prefer cold beer. ;) DJGPP is a DOS port of the GNU Compiler Suite, which executes in 32-bit protected mode under DPMI, and generates executables which do the same. AndrewJ