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Mumit Khan wrote:
> 
> Now, a question for those who want to develop under DOS and want to target
> windows32: Why not build a mingw cross-compiler under DJGPP? That way, you
> get the whole DJGPP dev environment and dev tools, and get to code for
> win32 at your heart's content.

No, you've already done too good a job.....  Ming works fine with djgpp
tools, at least in Win95/98  DOS boxes. I don't know about NT. Anders
has done a fine job, too, and it is now possible to add in the latest
and greatest MS headers. Keeping current was problematic with rsxntdj,
and a real task with the cygwin structure.

Why duplicate the effort if it can be avoided? Better those doing Win
apps should use ming, and devote any left over energy to working on FAQs
and docs based on using ming, rather than spawn yet another flavor, that
may or may not be consistently supported and documented.

Two cents worth from a defector to penguinWorld.


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