Re: TI-H: Re: Windows Compilers [Was: Linux link software.]

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Re: TI-H: Re: Windows Compilers [Was: Linux link software.]


Perhaps you misunderstand.  Let me re-hash the entire thread for you.

Grant Stockly
 Windows is gay since only windows programs compile under windows.  :)
 Unixes are hetro since you can recompile for different targets.  :)

Rosyna
 Windows can only compile for windows? Hah, can I have confirmation on
 this so I can brag about it?

Adam
 No, it is not true that windows will only compile for windows.

Grant
 With no modifications?  Yes, its true.  :)

Adam
 I do not mean to offend you, but which windows are you talking about?
 I happen to be discussing Microsoft Windows, from v3.1 through NT 4 and
 WIN98.  I can compile, in a windows environment, programs for many
 computers which do not run windows.  Perhaps you are thinking of
 something else.

Grant
 (Includes some program that includes platform dependant code)
 Take the program I sent you and compile it for a non microsoft target. 
:)
 Unless you buy a special compilier and make header files so that it
doesn't
 directly use stuff like 'winsock' calls, its platform specific.

Rosyna made the statement:
Windows can only compile for windows?
THIS IS INCORRECT.

I realize that Grant said, at first, that code meant to run only under
windows will only run under windows (duh.), but I think Rosyna took it
the wrong way.  I therefore made the statement that it was not true that
windows would only compile for windows.

Grant, you are still holding on to your first statment, where I was
trying to correct a different statment which branched off of yours.  I'm
sorry that I did not make myself clear.

Secondly, If I were to make a library for unix (say, winsock.h) which
enabled me to use the same commands I use in windows programming, then
your program example, AS-IS would run just fine under unix.

Thirdly, it is completely possible for me to run a program on a windows
machine, which will compile code for other platforms.  I can make mac
programs on my windows computer.  I can make unix programs for the many
different processors which unix is available on my windows computer. 
Just as that can be done on a unix system, mac system, or any or
computer platform.

I am almost certian, Grant, that you know all this.  So I'm assuming
that this was all a miscommunication.  But I did want to make myself
clear for all those who may have been confused by our conversation.

-Adam
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