On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Richard Erlacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sadly, though you may know, you haven't shed light on WHY this SDCC stuff > isn't promoted as a DOS program, rather than a Windows program.
SDCC under Windows is a Win32 console (command line) version. It is a Windows program. > If it requires an add-on to Windows, WHY? What does that do? SDCC runs under Windows fine without the need for any add-on. However, some people prefer to run it with the add-ons they like to use. > Do you seen what I mean? Why is there a CYGWIN? ... and what's that other > one MINGW ... or some such? Why do those exist? > Some people prefer to run some Unix compatible shell and commands under Windows, that is the purpose of Cygwin. MinGW is the GCC compiler under Windows without the dependency for Cygwin DLL. MSys provides some basic shell support for MinGW. Xiaofan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Sdcc-user mailing list Sdcc-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sdcc-user
