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Subject: Re: Windows GUI Programming with DJGPP
Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 08:24:25 +0200
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"Hans-Bernhard Broeker" <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> wrote in message 
news:3ftr2oF9hct1U1 AT news DOT dfncis DOT de...
> arizvi <ahmadwaris AT hotmail DOT com> wrote:
>
> The main problem with RSXNTDJ is bit-rot.  It's essentially not been
> maintained actively by anyone, for several years, while several parts
> of the DJGPP environment it relies on have changed massively.  In
> particular, it's unlikely to cooperate correctly with the current
> versions of GCC and binutils used by most DJGPP users.

The question is - why is it still offered for download without a warning
(e.g. ZIP picker)? I was wasting some time checking it out and others
seem to share the same fate.


> Generally, if you want to use GCC to compile Win32 programs, RSXNTDJ
> has long since stopped to be the best approach towards that goal.
> MinGW32 (including the copy of it provided as part of Cygwin32) has
> way better support.

Yes, but it takes them ages to implement the newest GCC version
(current: gcc 3.4.2) - unlike DJGpp.