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jury@flash.odin.harvard.edu (Paul Jury) writes:

>>      * Pre-compiled binaries and the maintained, stable ports of the GNU
>>	toolkit are available only from Cygnus.

>Please correct me if I am wrong, if I like to get working GNU toolkit
>for the Windows-NT environment:

>	* the only choice I have is to get it from the Cygnus.
>	* it will cost me
>	* I will get the modified source code (can I give it to my friend?)

Corrections:

Cygnus does not currently support the GNU toolkit running on Windows
NT.  I do not know if Cygnus has any future plans to support Windows
NT.

If Cygnus did support it, the sources would also be available in the
standard FSF releases (assuming the appropriate maintainers accepted
the patches, which I expect they would, since I understand that the
next release of gcc will have some patches for Windows NT support
(these patches did not come from Cygnus)).

If you chose to purchase support from Cygnus, it would cost you.

If you purchased support from Cygnus, you would get source code
(perhaps modified) and binaries, and you would be permitted to give
them to your friend.

So far as I know, there is some support in gcc for Windows NT, there
is no support in gas but it would be easy to add (since Windows NT
essentially uses COFF, which gas supports), there is no support in ld
and it would be hard to add (since somebody would have to understand
how to link against the DLL format), and there is no support in gdb
and it would be enormously difficult to add.  I don't know about any
other tools.

I am an employee of Cygnus Support.  I do not speak for it.
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