Re: [Mingw-users] MinGW Developer Studio [WAS: (no subject)]

[Earnie <ea...@us...>]

David Latief Budiman wrote:
> Sorry, in advance, if I offended u in any way in this mail.
> But, I have several q :
> 1. I have downloaded all your files and extract it n do everything else
> u told to do in the 'HOWTO Install..', but I can't seem to start making
> a executable file, here. How do u make 1?
> 2. Back in high school, I used MinGW Developer Studio. Is it the same
> program as you provide in the web?
> 3. If it is the same, how come I don't have the .exe to open the program
> from all the files that I downloaded?
> 4. If it is different, can I have a link to get he developer studio?
>
> Thx, for all the answers u're going to give me, in advance.
>

MinGW Developer Studio has no relationship with the official MinGW other 
than using it's name and distributions of software.  In fact, MinGW 
Developer Studio wasn't even open source even though it was free to 
download.  I had in the past asked the developer to open his source but 
he decided that it wasn't to his liking.  Now he and his software are gone.

I suggest you use Code::Blocks[1] instead.  They give you MinGW as well 
but you can upgrade as you please and they are open source.

What we offer is a command line utility to compile and link programs. 
So you have to know how to create Makefiles to compile and link your 
programs to come to the result of your executables.  Others have taken 
what we offer and have wrapped a GUI around it to spawn the controls for 
creating the make files and executing the build for you.

[1] http://www.codeblocks.org

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