[NTLUG:Discuss] OT: Porting Question

[JR Newsletters]

Duh, forgot the link:   //http://www.mingw.org/   for the MinGW tools.

I program on my Linux Box using wxWidgets-2.5.2 (wxGTK & wxMSW) and 
create my applications, then I just move the source and compile under 
MinGW using a different make file, and I have the same application on 
both Linux and Windows platform.  The Cygwin license issue became a 
problem with us because I had an application that was going to be passed 
around internally in the company, and perhaps to some client, and the 
company did not want anybody but us, the software group, to see the 
source.  So I converted to MinGW and am very pleased with how it is working.



JR Newsletters wrote:

> dmyhand610 wrote:
>
>> Ralph Green, Jr wrote:
>>   I will try going the cygwin route.  I had not thought of that.  
>> Thanks, Dennis
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> Can I recommend you go the MinGW route with either MSYS or 
> MINGStudio?  If you develop or port under Cygwin, you'll more than 
> likely need the cygwin1.dll binary, and you can't freely redistribute 
> it, thanks to RedHat's licensing of the dll, unless you are including 
> all sources with your program (completely GPL).  That may or may not 
> matter to you.  If you develop under MinGW, you will need the 
> mingwm10.dll, but that is a public domain .dll that you can distribute 
> with your ported Windows program without licensing restrictions.
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