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Please forgive me if some of this is a little basic. What I'm
considering is bringing the tool chain into use in a commercial
setting. I need to do everything I can to confirm that it can work
for us before investing much time.<br>
<br>
Over ten years ago we worked with mingw to cross compile for windows
from linux. At that time, we concluded we couldn't use it because
it could only link "C" DLLs built by Visual Studio tools (when
source recompilation wasn't an option). We also expected that we
would need to link with "C++" libraries for which we didn't have
source.<br>
<br>
Since then, we have learned that we have limited need for an ability
to link third party "C++" libraries built from visual studio. It
also appears that the current tool chain can handle "C" linkage to
Visual Studio generated ".obj" and static ".lib" - not just DLL.<br>
<br>
I would appreciate confirmation of the following:<br>
<ul>
<li>The project provides the full GNU tool chain for C++<br>
</li>
<li>Debugging on windows is possible via windows compiled version
of gdb</li>
<li>The tool chain can link against static "C" libraries or DLLs
created by Visual C++ (.obj, .lib and .lib/DLL)<br>
</li>
<li>The tool chain CAN NOT link against C++ libraries or DLLs
created by Visual C++ (differences in C++ infrastructure, ABI,
etc.)<br>
</li>
<li>Well behaved and recent builds of QT 4.x exist and are
regularly used.<br>
</li>
<li>Executables and/or DLLs created with this tool chain the same
licensing implications as objects created for linux on linux.</li>
<li>There are no objects <i>automatically</i> contributed to
linked results that would require a company to open their source
code base.</li>
</ul>
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Presuming all of the above to be true, I would appreciate a
recommendation on the best stable point to start, where I can get
a complete tool chain and supporting libraries including QT 4.<br>
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<p>My thanks and regards to everyone working on this project.<br>
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<p>-jrm<br>
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