From: Weiqi Gao <weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Compiling Windows dll's with djgpp/gcc
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 01:00:06 -0500
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Sean Keogh wrote:
> 
> John M. Aldrich wrote in message <3447EA2E DOT 44D4 AT cs DOT com>...
> >Hamish Rose wrote:
> >>
> >> Is this possible?
> >
> >The short answer:  No.
> >
> >The long answer:  DJGPP is a DOS-native compiler; it cannot inherently
> >produce Windows-native code; therefore it cannot use or create DLLs.
> >However, there exist numerous add-on toolkits that either allow you to
> >produce things similar to DLLs for DJGPP programs, and there is even a
> >toolkit which allows DJGPP to produce Win32-native code.  It's called
> >rsxntdj and is available from SimTel mirrors in the same place you got
> >DJGPP.  Be sure to read the insructions before using it!!
> 
> There is also a Win32 port of some (most?) of the GNU C/C++ development
> tools to Win32. It's called mingw32, and you can find it at
> http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~janjaap/mingw32/
> It comes with all the Win32 libraries, header files etc, and seems to
> support all of the VC++ features other than MFC. With this, you CAN compile
> DLL files (but I'm not sure how, having never done it myself).

mingw32 stands for minimalist GNU-Win32.  It is based on the GNU-Win32
done by Cygnus.  http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32 has links to the
official mingw32 site and several other relevent projects.

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