[Fwd: Re: getting started]

[Dan Kegel]

Glen Kaukola wrote:
> Well I've gotten MinGW and sorta learned my way around it.  But now, my
> problem is that neither of my windows programming books has makefiles of
> any sort.  All they have is C++ code.  So maybe I should go with my
> original plan of compiling stuff with visual studio and seeing if it
> runs under wine.  Or do you have any other suggestions?

Your plan's fine -- but you should also go ahead and learn Make, and
test the code in the books using MinGW and Makefiles.
Knowledge is power.
- Dan

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