At 10:28 13-11-05 +0800, you wrote: >John Heenan wrote: > >>It would be nice if we could get rid of cygwin altogether, however >>there are known issues using the cygwin free MinGW/MSYS tools with >>regard to cross compilers, such as collect2 for the compiler and >>readline for gdb. However codesourcery.com have overcome these >>problems for its GNU ARM distribution. Apparently they get paid by ARM >>to maintain and update the distribution. There is a good chance their >>gdb for ARM will work in Dev-C++ and possibly Eclipse. >> >> >You can't get rid of Cygwin, so forget it. We used to build with Cygwin >and MinGW. The MinGW versions ran faster, but had many many problems.
Steve, I know it is off-topic, but I'm very interested to hear what kind of troubles you had. I've written a lot of business critical software using DevC++ / MingGW (also code which compiles on both Win32 and Linux) but I've never ran into trouble with it. Nico
