Hi Jakob, GCC, in-and-of-itself, is a compiler. Linkers are not directly part of GCC. Even the Standard C Library is a separate project. Hence and likewise, the Windows API is outside the immediate domain of GCC as well. There is a GCC built for Windows that supports the Windows API. So it's everything in one bundle. It is called MinGW. http://www.mingw.org/ There are a variety of IDE's for MinGW already available. (But you are at liberty to write your own, too.) http://www.mingw.org/links.shtml Alternatively, Cygwin provides a pleasant Unix-like environment for Windows, and distributes MinGW as a Cygwin package. Where you can use the other familiar IDEs such as emacs or vim for development. http://www.cygwin.com/ Other Unix-like environments to Windows include MKS, Interix, and MS-SFU. I have less experience with those, and prefer Cygwin, but those are the ones I'm aware of, that are stable and used. And I have heard good things about them from those who use them. HTH, --Eljay
