Re: LUG: replacement for gcc on windows? - Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:17:01 -0400

Subject : Re: LUG: replacement for gcc on windows?

From : mgangav@ncsu.[redacted]

Date : Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:17:01 -0400

Ahh so I see that most people do what I have been doing till now. I
usually use minGW on windows as well. I was just wondering if there was
some other method that people were using that I was not aware of. :P

I guess that if you were making a windows specific app, then you would use
Visual Studio.

Thanks,
Mehul

> Note that MinGW also runs under windows... so you don't _have_ to cross
> compile. http://www.mingw.org/
>
> On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Alexander Ray
> <alexjray.ncsu@gmail.[redacted]>wrote:
>
>> I dunno what to do if you wanna make it compile under windows. Some
>> people
>> getting working with visual studio.
>>
>> Personally, I compile the .EXE's with MinGW under linux, then copy them
>> over to windows computers for testing.
>>
>> I provide the source code for windows users to build on their own, but
>> simplest&fastest way to build programs for linux&windows I just build
>> the
>> exe's under linux.
>>
>> ~Alex
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 1:20 PM, <mgangav@ncsu.[redacted]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi LUG,
>>>
>>> Does anybody know of a good command line drop in replacement for gcc on
>>> windows? Basically, there is this project that I have been developing
>>> on
>>> linux. But now, I have to get the code working on windows. I have been
>>> very careful to use only common library calls.
>>>
>>> Cywin is too bulky and minGW + MSYS seems to cause some weird linking
>>> errors with the project that I am working on. But, in any case, I am
>>> not
>>> looking to emulate the linux environment. Is there any good command
>>> line
>>> compiler for C/C++ for windows?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Mehul
>>>
>>
>>
>

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