Mark Mitchell writes:
>(Again, I'm not trying to be critical: I like MinGW, and it's not my
>place to say what it ought to be. I'm just giving feedback as a user.)
Well, it's no more my place to say what it ought to be. I'm basically
just describing what MinGW is, a Win32 compiler like Borland C++, not
a drop-in Visual C++ replacement like Intel's Win32 compiler.
>To me, the fact that it uses the MSVCRT runtime library is very
>important, and the Visual C++ interoperability is important.
Using MSVCRT.DLL only makes MinGW's runtime mostly compatible with Visual
C++ 6.0 (and I think 5.0). Newer versions of Visual C++ use different
runtime libraries, so that interoperability is becoming less relevent
over time.
Ross Ridge
