Re: [Mingw-users] MinGW, mingw-runtime, w32api

[Alex V. <al...@co...>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Fattaruso" <jo...@ti...>
To: "mingw-users" <min...@li...>
Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 8:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] MinGW, mingw-runtime, w32api


> This is all perhaps correct if you substitute 'gcc' for 'MinGW' in Greg's 
> text below. I think Alex's original question was about which packages to 
> download, as they are named on the sourceforge site. As Max pointed out, 
> the 'MinGW' package contains binutils + gcc + mingw-runtime + w32api. 
> Therefore there is no such thing as 'MinGW only'. 'MinGW' contains it all, 
> but was assembled as a convenience to new users some time ago. If you 
> download MinGW you will get the last stable version of gcc, plus somewhat 
> out of date versions of mingw-runtime and w32api. Max's suggestion on what 
> individual packages to download is good, to get the latest bug fixes in 
> mingw-runtime and w32api:
> 
> binutils-2.13-20020808-1.tar.gz
> binutils-2.13-info-html.tar.gz
> gcc-2.95.3-20010828.tar.gz
> mingw-runtime-2.1.tar.gz
> w32api-2.0.tar.gz
> 

[snip]

I have downloaded MinGW-1.1.tar.gz
So, I don't need to download mingw-runtime-2.1.tar.gz. Is it true ?


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