Joost van der Sluis on 10/26/2009 01:42 PM wrote:
>
> Those files are not architecture independent. They are somewhat similar
> to .o files. They contain the run time library for the language,
> compiled to native windows object files. If you want to compile your own
> program with them afterwards, they are linked together into a windows
> executable.
>
> You could argue that they should belong in a -devel package. But since
> this package is a compiler, we decided not to split it up into a devel
> package and a non-devel package. As that would be pointless, as one will
> not work without the other.
>