David Abrahams wrote:
"Duft Markus" <Markus.Duft@salomon.at> writes:
The second thing is, that resulting executables depend on msvcrt.lib and are therefore binary compatible with nearly everything ;o) on windows.
That's also true of MinGW, right?
Yes.
When using gcc it has it's own libc (on interix gcc is a interix build, and has really not much to do with windows.... ;o//) and one can't link those things together, so in gcc built binaries one can _not_ use the win32 API which, on windows, is not really desireable.
Huh? Not so; I have used the win32 API even through cygwin GCC. And then there's gcc -mno-cygwin.
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