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FD and the GNU linker?
I noticed that in order to link against "arbitrary" C libraries, that
I needed the microsoft linker support package. I think I can get msvc
at an extremely discounted rate since I'm a student, but I'm trying to
understand why another linker is necessary. The only "arbitrary"
libraries which I'm interested in using are compilable with
mingw/cygnus and, since those are GNU tools, is it possible to use the
GNU linker with those libraries? I'm hesitant to spend money on msvc
since my tool of choice will probably be mingw, and I don't really
feel like using an overly-complicated development environment to
accomplish what ./configure; make can easily do. :)