From: "Paul Bibbings" <paul DOT bibbings AT tesco DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: WIN32 Programming and RSX.
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 02:20:45 -0000
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Damian Yerrick <MYNAMEISd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comNO2CANNEDHAM> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 14 Feb 2000 02:30:15 GMT, quantum00 AT my-deja DOT com wrote:
>
> >My question is can djgpp and RSX be used properly and easily to program
> >Win32 applications. Is there a better toolkit (is it free?) to program
> >win32 applications with?
>
> RSXNTDJ is IMHO a pain in the n3ck to set up.  I'd suggest mingw32, a
> version of Red Hat Cygwin modified to work with the msvcrt.dll already
> on your Win32 computer instead of the 4 MB cygwin.dll.
>

Another excellent free alternative which builds win32 applications using the
C language is lcc-win32, which you should be able to get via the following
link  http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lcc-win32/

(Apoligies for promoting another IDE ahead of the thoroughly excellent djgpp
;-)  ).