From: kunst AT prl DOT philips DOT nl
Subject: Re: Microsoft Windows
To: rschader AT freenet DOT grfn DOT org
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 10:02:09 +0100 (MET)
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (DJGPP users list)


Bob Schader (rschader AT freenet DOT grfn DOT org) writes:
> 
> Hello, I am fairly new to using djgpp but have previouly used gcc2.5.8 on 
> Amiga and Sun computers. The readme file for djgpp says that it supports 
> Windows. I tool this to mean that I could compile programs which would 
> run under windows. Is this so? If it is, how is it accompished? I have 
> other compilers (namely Symantec C++ standard and Turbo Visual C++) but 
> the library files (*.lib) seem to be incompatible (at least according to 
> nm -s). Are there libraries available for djgpp? I am anxious to here 
> from anyone regarding this subject. Thanx,
> 

You can run gcc (and all other GO32 programs) in a Windows *DOS box*.
The same holds for programs compiled with DJGPP.
However, you can't use DJGPP to write real Windows programs (yet).

There is another port of gcc to DOS called EMX where work is in progress
to enable Windows programs to be compiled with EMX-gcc.
If you really need this, you'll have to switch 'teams'...

Pieter Kunst (kunst AT prl DOT philips DOT nl)