From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2001-10-04T09:46:28+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:22046] Re: Flogging a live Window

In article <3bbbaa80$0$244$edfadb0f@dspool01.news.tele.dk>,
MikkelFJ <mikkelj-anti-spam@post1.dknet.dk> wrote:
>
>"Benoit Cerrina" <benoit.cerrina@writeme.com> wrote in message
>news:9pg69o$d2j$1@wanadoo.fr...
>
>> wrong here, for multiple reasons the first one being the price of VC, the
>> second
>> being the availability of windows there are many reasons to do it.
>
>But the difficulty of obtaining gcc on Windows makes it a lot easier to just
>dualboot Linux where you can get the CD's in the local bookstore or wrapped
>with a magazine - or as easy to download CD images.
>

Actually, except for the bandwidth issues (like if you're using a 56K 
dialup like I am) it's quite easy to get gcc and cygwin for windows, go 
to:
http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/
and click on the 'Install Cygwin now' icon.  It actually works pretty 
nicely.

Phil