From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20183 invoked by alias); 9 Nov 2005 22:17:43 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 20169 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Nov 2005 22:17:41 -0000 Received: from fep01-0.kolumbus.fi (HELO fep01-app.kolumbus.fi) (193.229.0.41) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Wed, 09 Nov 2005 22:17:41 +0000 Received: from [10.0.0.3] (really [81.197.132.163]) by fep01-app.kolumbus.fi with ESMTP id <20051109221738.PCZB515.fep01-app.kolumbus.fi@[10.0.0.3]>; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 00:17:38 +0200 Message-ID: <43727719.70903@mbnet.fi> Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 22:17:00 -0000 From: Kai Ruottu Reply-To: karuottu@mbnet.fi User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: corey taylor CC: Frank Beesley , gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Updating powerpc-crosscompile environment from gcc-2.95.3 References: <43725835.4070503@aeroflex.com> <43726A38.4060506@mbnet.fi> <2e393d080511091333k5ea4eaefi668237a1d1a8013d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2e393d080511091333k5ea4eaefi668237a1d1a8013d@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2005-11/txt/msg00143.txt.bz2 corey taylor wrote: >> In the GCC world, "creating executables" is very far from "compiling", >>but in the Windoze MSVC, BCC etc. cases "compiling" is considered being >>just the same thing as "creating executables" ! > > > Not entirely true. You just typically interact with the wrapper > program, but compiling and lnking are distinct processes in msvc.. Sad maybe, but GCC doesn't even provide a C library, neither the binutils. One must get them from somewhere else... That one cannot just download the "Free GNU C compiler" and then try "compiling" the "Hello World", maybe is the first lecture people will get about using GCC... At least it was for me over 10 years ago :-(