Re: TI-H: Re: Windows Compilers [Was: Linux link software.]
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Re: TI-H: Re: Windows Compilers [Was: Linux link software.]
>Windows can only compile for windows?
Not windows, windows software...
>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.
Well, not realy. They all handle sockets differently.
>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.
We all know that a processor can compile for different targets...
>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.
do dogs pee on brick walls?
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