Re: [Mingw-users] Plotutil compile problem

[John B. <joh...@ho...>]

Mark Allyn wrote:

> 
> I would suggest that MinGW is a long way from being what it could be and 
> should be.
> 

As another poster said, MinGW is not magic. If the authors use Linux, they
are going to use whatever APIs are available to them. These APIs may not exist
on Windows. If they want the program to also run on Windows, then *they*
have to take the necessary measures, so their code will have something like

#ifdef _WIN32
/* Do it the Windows way */
#else
/* Do it the Linux way */
#endif

in various places. In reality, they must also account for the differences
between the various flavours of Windows.

If the author is not concerned about compiling and running on different
platforms, then it may work by luck, or not.

Regards,
Alias John Brown.
 		 	   		  
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