Re: basic stuff

["Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.com>]

At 11:12 AM 7/23/2001, Joe T. wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm new to cygwin, not new to programming though.
>I scanned through the documentation, but didnt find an
>answer to my questions. maybe im just that blind.
>
>I would like to work on some socket programming on
>windows and I'm trying to find a good compiler. since
>I have a good background in unix programming, i
>figured cygwin would be my best bet. but there are
>some problems:
>
>I like using synedit (www.mkidesigns.com) for my IDE. 
>after ive compiled the program and i run it, it tells
>me it needs cygwin1.dll. if i copy this file to
>windows/system, im able to run the program.


Don't do that.  It makes it very easy to end up with 2 or more
Cygwin DLLs on a system.  More than 1 loaded at a time is a 
problem.


>so my questions are, do i have to work with cygwin
>directly in the 'unix' environment? or is it possible
>to work completely in a win32 environment? are all the
>programs compiled to the cygwin.dll, and if so,
>wouldnt that make it rather hard to run that program
>on another windows machine?


If you don't need the POSIX emulation layer for your 
program, use the -mno-cygwin switch or the completely Win32 
version of gcc available at www.mingw.org.  Otherwise, you 
need cygwin1.dll, just like you need msvcrt.dll for most other
Win32 programs, for example. 


>if cygwin isnt what im really looking for in a
>compiler, could someone else suggest another free one
>that would suit my needs?

Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
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