Re: is Vax addressing sane today

On Sat, 28 Sep 2024 11:04:34 -0400, EricP wrote:

GCC is a compiler collection not a integrated development kit for
Windows.

GCC is cross-platform and IDE-independent. If you can’t use it with your
IDE, the limitation is with your IDE, not with GCC.

I have no knowledge of what state GCC was in in 1992 but it likely did
not support the MS enhancements for Win32 programming:

That’s a long time to go without checking on what’s been happening in the
computing scene lately. Are you still doing your programming to 32-bit
APIs? Isn’t there a “Win64” yet?

Also, Microsoft’s development tools still assume a Windows-centric world,
and are not suited for cross-development. If you haven’t noticed, a lot of
corporate work is deployed in the cloud now, which is Linux-based. And
then there is embedded work, which is also heavily Linux-based.

Plus come with necessary API headers, various link libraries and DLL's,
supporting applications, documentation.
You know... what a product looks like.

Those are all parts of the relevant SDKs, separate from GCC. E.g.
something as basic as

    ldo@theon:~> dpkg-query -S /usr/include/stdlib.h
    libc6-dev:amd64: /usr/include/stdlib.h

is part of the POSIX/C runtime library SDK, not part of GCC itself.