Thread: Tell me everything about DLLs

I have mingw on my PC at work, I'll load it up on my Mac since XCode is the best IDE anyway. I didn't know that I could cross compile from the Mac for Windows... does it still perform the multipass optimization?

AFAIK cross-compiling with MinGW produces identical results as native compiling

Beautiful, I can get rid of that go-awful PC at my workstation.

Dev-C++ and Visual Studios are nice, but it like a little toy compared to XCode.

installing mingw will give you a windows specific version of all the GCC compilers and utilities

Your native GCC would be

Code:

gcc -o c-prog c-prog.c
g++ -o cpp-prog cpp-prog.cpp

and for Win32 cross-compiling
I forget what the naming convention is exactly, but it's something like

Code:

mingw-gcc-win32 -o c-prog c-prog.c
mingw-g++-win32 -o cpp-prog cpp-prog.cpp

If you use windows specific things
(like using native windows threads, instead of using posix threads)
you will also need the mingw runtime
this is just a small DLL

If you code windows specific things into your code, any compiled code will depend (and be dynamically linked to) the runtime

but to be honest, everyone uses pthreads anyways....

I use pthreads.

Ugh, I wonder if there is a way to do it through the GUI. I'm writing a program that's currently over 100 files and gonna get much bigger.

yep,
any good IDE will be able to use the cross-compiler
and most will automatically detect if you have one installed

in any case, it's just a matter declaring the right executables to make
instead of

Code:

CC=gcc
CXX=g++

it's

Code:

CC=mingw-gcc-win32
CXX=mingw-g++-win32

Beautiful, I would prefer to write a parser in C since it's faster.