wazilian wrote:

> I've got an application running great on Linux which uses the Interbase
> API to access our Firebird database. Now I am required to port this app
> to Windows.
>
> I guess my question is, which compiler is required to do this? I have
> cygwin's gcc currently running. I don't have MSVC or Borland and would
> prefer to stay away from those. But if I need to, well then I need to.
>
> If I can use cygwin (or perhaps even mingw), how can I correctly link
> against fbclient.dll?

I don't know about cygwin, but I'm using MinGW without any problems. In
fact, in last two years, I compiled FlameRobin (and my other apps) on
Windows only by using MinGW. We are using IBPP library, which (on
Windows) loads fbclient dynamically at runtime.

HTH

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Milan Babuskov
http://www.flamerobin.org