<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Ove Kaaven <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ovek@arcticnet.no">ovek@arcticnet.no</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Sir Gallantmon skrev:<br>
<div class="im">> Sorry, I think of the word "toolchain" differently I guess. I always<br>
> considered a toolchain to include both tools and common libraries, as<br>
> Fedora did. I was aware of the MinGW compiler offered in the Debian<br>
> package repository, but with no libraries, I considered it useless.<br>
<br>
</div>Well, to be fair, the libraries included with mingw32 include the whole<br>
Win32 API, including the standard C runtime (msvcrt). What more could<br>
you possibly need from a "minimalist GNU for Windows" compiler for it to<br>
be useful...?<br><br>
</blockquote></div><br><div>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.</div>