Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:43:50 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Mark Phillips wrote:

> > Do you HAVE to use a DLL, is this just a nice-to-have feature?  In
> > other words, will the program work when linked statically?
> 
> No.  It looks like the only way I can do this is with a DLL.

Strange.  This might mean that you must have a development environment
that generates native Win32 code, in which case DJGPP is not for you.

> Is mingw32 djgpp compatible?

No, it's a native Win32 compiler.

> Do I need to download cygwin to use it?

No, Cygwin is another native Win32 compiler.  The DJGPP FAQ explains a
bit about both of them in section 3.6.