On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Ove Kaaven <ovek@arcticnet.no> wrote:

Sir Gallantmon skrev:

> Sorry, I think of the word "toolchain" differently I guess. I always
> considered a toolchain to include both tools and common libraries, as
> Fedora did. I was aware of the MinGW compiler offered in the Debian
> package repository, but with no libraries, I considered it useless.

Well, to be fair, the libraries included with mingw32 include the whole
Win32 API, including the standard C runtime (msvcrt). What more could
you possibly need from a "minimalist GNU for Windows" compiler for it to
be useful...?

It almost certainly doesn't include the whole API set for Windows. It includes the minimal Win32 API, yes, but not all the Win32 APIs. I don't care for your bias on RPM based distros, so meh. I respect Debian's decision not to include common libraries under cross-arching, but I personally like the convenience that Fedora offers, especially given all the circular dependencies some of the libraries that Fedora provides would require if built from source.