Overview of the status on Windows
This page presents an overview of the various Windows platforms and the status of the CBS for them.
The platforms are "canonical": we assume typical or often encountered installations. For "bare Windows" this means Windows XP, MicroSoft Visual C/C++ (version 6.0, 2003 or 2005, but currently with an emphasis on version 6.0). For Cygwin and MinGW this is the suite of GCC compilers.
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Build aspects | Bare Windows | Cygwin | MinGW |
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Static libraries | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Shared libraries (DLL)| Yes | Yes | . |
C++ | Yes | Yes(1) | . |
Fortran | No(2) | Yes(3) | . |
Java | . | . | . |
Perl | . | . | . |
Python | . | . | . |
Tcl | Yes(4) | . | . |
Tk | . | (5) | . |
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