Re: FD and the GNU linker?

To: info-dylan@ai.mit.edu
Subject: Re: FD and the GNU linker?
From: "Scott McKay" <swm@mediaone.net>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 23:15:03 -0400 (EDT)
Organization: Road Runner
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Charles Hixson wrote in message <395A381C.AC438971@earthlink.net>...
>
>
>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?


Nobody bet Fun-O on anything.  The gnu linker works just fine.

>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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Re: FD and the GNU linker?

From: Chris Double <chris@double.co.nz>

Re: FD and the GNU linker?

From: "Scott McKay" <swm@mediaone.net>

Re: FD and the GNU linker?

From: Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@earthlink.net>

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