Subj : Re: NPTL2 or something
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Date : Mon Jan 03 2005 03:31 pm

Joseph Seigh wrote:
> but I have vc++ 6.0 which sucks and which causes problems.
> I need to go to vc++ 7.0 except that requires patches for
> win2k.  Except putting patches on win2k leads to win2k not
> booting.  So I'd have to go to winXP prof which also means
> upgrading some other ms apps.  All of which means lot of
> money.  Also if I go that route then I should upgrade the
> hardware given that MS locks you in to a specific machine.
> So lots of money which I don't have.  So for now, no windows
> stuff.
Have you considered using MinGW?
Have a look at www.mingw.org - it's a port of GCC to Windows (a bit like 
Cygwin, but without the UNIX-emulating DLL). It allows access to an 
pretty-complete win32 API set of headers, reconstructed from scratch 
according to the documentation and links to Microsoft's own CRTL - just 
like Visual C++ does.

HTH

rlc

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