On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 02:17:49PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > So, anyone know of a real, honest to goodness free software C++ compiler on > > Windows? Is there by any chance a gcc for Windows? > > > > > Under cygwin, yes. But I don't know about otherwise, and I don't know if > the executables it produces run outside cygwin. Probably not.
The gcc compiler is available natively on Windows at http://www.mingw.org/ I build a native version of LyX with it using autotools. A cygwin program is a native Windows program and only needs the cygwin1.dll shared library to work (Ok, maybe some other dll, too :). It is the shared library that provides the posix layer. -- Enrico
