Re: [Mingw-users] Fwd: Windows versions and MinGW

[Oscar F. <of...@wa...>]

SPC...@ao... writes:

> 1) Will MINGW work in Windows XP Home edition?

I do not remember any gripe about that OS version and MinGW. Try
searching the mailing list archives.

> (I do not use Windows so I do not know the 
> differences between the many Windows OSs. 
> I need to compile a GCC-unix project so it 
> can run for testing purposes as a Windows 
> executable.)

Beware: if your UNIX project depends on features not present on
Windows, you must adapt your sources to Windows. MinGW's gcc is just a
compiler, it will not emulate UNIX for you. That's what Cygwin
does. Cygwin is a different project.

> Which versions of Windows will MINGW work in?

It should work "out-of-the-box" on all versions except Win95. For that
version, you'll need to install the freely available library
MSVCRT.dll (you can download it from Microsoft).

[snip]

> 2) Will an executable compiled with MINGW/WinXP 
> (for example) be able to run/execute in a 
> Windows 98 environment? 

See above.

-- 
Oscar