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26 Jun 2024 09:19:28 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Help with the basics: Compiling with MingW  
From: Lutz-Peter Hooge
Date: 22 Apr 2005 10:23:38
Message: <426908ea@news.povray.org>
<"Boumboum34" <boumboum34[at]yahoo[dot]com>> wrote:

> I'm brand new to MingW (though not to C/C++ programming)--so new I have to
> run MingW in a DOS box (what? A Windows 32 compiler that runs, not in
> Windows, but DOS? Whoa....).

Well, its a compiler, not a GUI.

That "DOS" is the command line interface for windows. There is nothing wrong
with it. That it looks like DOS doesn't mean you cou only run DOS programs 
from there, or your compiled binaries will be 16bit or something...

Lutz-Peter


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