From: Damian Yerrick Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: windows compiler and tutorial? Organization: Pin Eight Software Message-ID: References: <387990c2_3 AT news5 DOT newsfeeds DOT com> <34hk7s4ln66raunbjbq4n80uusoo9mgdum AT 4ax DOT com> <85dlch$cn58$1 AT news DOT doit DOT wisc DOT edu> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 17 X-Trace: /w3Za+u/4cWVoipMhvSwPubR7VKaQy2CP76eolPhsHXqRJW4+9EPgW1vyByBnkHAEHP3LyOavDei!uz3gwbyYdIAruk+Nm7DQkCeqSVO/JB739Lx8AOp4X699yTk+7WqGZV+vWmxY8BrOT/O3DHuTdg== X-Complaints-To: abuse AT gte DOT net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 02:23:21 GMT Distribution: world Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 02:23:21 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu (Mumit Khan) wrote in message <85dlch$cn58$1 AT news DOT doit DOT wisc DOT edu>... >Damian Yerrick wrote: >> 3. Another GCC port called Cygwin32. Only use this if you are GPLing >> your programs and you are not distributing binaries on a floppy >> (Cygwin binaries need a 4 MB DLL whose header files are GPLed). > >You seem to really enjoy quoting "4 MB DLL" ;-) It's actually about >~450k (Cygwin b20.1) stripped, and possibly ~500k for newer snapshots. Still cuts seriously into floppy and Internet distributions of precompiled binaries, and still has the GPL restriction on the DLL stub (can't legally write MP3 or GIF encoders with it). -- Damian Yerrick http://yerricde.tripod.com/ View full sig at http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yerricde/sig.html