Re: (Another) newbie problem

[jim@nga.com (Jim Roy)]

Lighten up Earnie.

A lot of us are in the same boat.  This stuf is complex.  I've
read a lot of web pages and even got a couple of  projects to
build and work.  Still, it's not *obvious* to me that he's mixing
Ming32 and Cygwin.  I'm not sure I even know exactly what that means.
( May be why some stuf I try still doesn't work :-} ) 

Are you saying that *ALL* of the libraries, header files, & build
tools come in separate flavors, one for cygwin and one for mingw32?
That when building mingw pgms, the only part of the cygwin package
one should be using is the shell & shell tools?

That's the picture
I have, but I'm not completely sure I have it set up that way.  One
set of docs says to dump the mingw stuf in a particular directory
and the compiler will find the runtime automatically, and another doc
says to install in a separate place and point to it with -I & -L flags.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to be critical of these great
tools, or the documentation either for that matter, just this
reply.  If you are just going to tell someone to RTFM, ( especially
someone who obviously already has R'd a lot of TFM )
why post it to the list?  You are the expert here, #include a little
insite with the chastisement.

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> From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
> 
> 
> Go back to Mumit's site and read it.  You can't mix Mingw32 and Cygwin which
> you've obviously done.  You might want to read my site as well.
> ===
> Earnie Boyd <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
> 
> Newbies, please visit
> <http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32/index.html>

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