On Fri, 18 Jul 2014, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, Jim, > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Jim Michaels <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> a windows version of DJGPP is in the wings, based on cygwin I think. there's >> an alpha you can compile with cygwin. > > This is so wrong that I don't even know where to begin. > > DJGPP only runs on DOS (or similar like NTVDM or DOSEMU). It does not > use PE/COFF at all, nor DLLs, nor Win32 APIs. > > Sure, you can have some kind of bound / family (or whatever) .EXE that > can run on two OSes (RSXNT). Sure, with other compilers (like > OpenWatcom), you can use external API emulation (e.g. HX). Sure, you > can use GCC to cross-compile from one OS to another. And yes, both > Cygwin and DJGPP use GCC + BinUtils, but everything else is different > (especially the libc). > > I don't know who told you that DJGPP was ever interested in Windows. > If you have proof of that, I'd like to see it, but I'm not holding my > breath. :-)
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