Re: FD and the GNU linker?

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• Subject: Re: FD and the GNU linker?
• From: Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@earthlink.net>
• Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 13:45:03 -0400 (EDT)
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Scott McKay wrote:

> ...  snip ...
> >http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/sdks/platform/platform.asp
>
> That is, you can download it free of charge.  This is the linker
> most of the FD developers use, myself included.
>
> >This works fine with FD and it is the linker I've been using.
> >
> >Chris.
> >--
> >http://www.double.co.nz/dylan
> >
> >

Were I you I would be uncomfortable betting my company that MS would
continue to provide tools gratis.  Would the CygWin (gnu) linker work?

OTOH, ISE Eiffel until just recently required that one purchase a C
compiler in order to use it on windows (Borland's release of a free command
line bcc5.5 freed them of this constraint), so maybe it will work. But
there's a lot of history that says companies should be wary of tying their
business to MS "generosity".

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