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The Cygnus system is actually quite interesting. They've added an emulation
layer to Windows, so that the Gnu Unix tools find the "unix" environment they
expect. It allows you to run the bash shell and the Gnu tools from within
Windows itself, and compile to a Windows target.
See http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/6162/gcc.html for a good collection
of information and links on Gnu development in Windows.

-Noah


Smc659@aol.com wrote:
> 
> Jmlchief,
> 
> No these compilers are meant for unix only, specificly those OS's that are
> using ELF binaries.  Windows uses PE(32-bt)/NE(16-bit) binaries. But
> Cygnus.com is making a GCC compiler for Win32 and has even listed some
> applications that have been ported from UNIX. If you want to develope for
> Windows, my suggestion is go to www.borland.com and look at delphi or
> www.microsoft.com and look for Visual Basic.
> 
> Cheers,
> Sam
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