I'm no expert in SDCC, but I use it on my WinXP box without Cygwin.
Aren't most (all?) compilers command line?
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From: "Richard Erlacher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Yes, but SDCC doesn't actually run under Windows, does it? It runs under a
> DOS prompt, which means it uses the DOS command interpreter, as presented by
> Windows, rather than Windows. How does that fit together?
>
> regards,
>
> Richard Erlacher
>
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> > CYGWIN, I believe, allows some native Linux programs to run on a Windows
> > machine, as WINE allows some Windows programs to run on a Linux machine.
> > By
> > native I mean a simple copy of the binary executable file transferred from
> > one machine to the other. There may well be other shells/emulators that
> > permit this kind of functionality, but these are the ones I know of.
> >
> > On Thursday 04 September 2008 05:41:25 Richard Erlacher 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.
> >>
> >> If it requires an add-on to Windows, WHY? What does that do?
> >>
> >> 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?
> >>
> >> regards,
> >>
> >> Richard Erlacher
> >
> >
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