Congruent (Toolbusters) GCC 2.4.5 for Windows NT

Perhaps one of the more interesting, if not abandoned GCC ports.

It’s from 1994 (although they apparently had earlier), and it’s just enough binutils & gcc to compile stuff for Win32.

I stumbled onto the directory http://www.nic.funet.fi/index/win-nt/gcc/ while looking for the source code to the ‘top’ program, which incidentally can be found here. In hindsight the name ‘top’ is pretty terrible, as looking at the ‘top program for Linux’, well you are going to find all kinds of crap, and surely not top.

The files gnu-bin.tar.Z and gnu-lib.tar.Z contain enough binaries for GCC 2.4.5 C/C++ and ObjectiveC, along with GAS and what purports to be a linker, although I think it just prints the flags to MS Link that you’d need.

And as mentioned in this post, by Juha Inkari, how on earth do you use this thing? Well thankfully in the future we have access to more stuff, so I decided to throw MinGW at it, and see what happens.

I’m using the Linker & LIBC from Fortran PowerStation 1.00 with the linker update.

There is no source diffs, patches, or anything really.

Is this useful? I suspect not. Thanks to RSXNT there is easier ways to get much older versions of GCC… Although I guess it speaks more so to this port using OMF objects.

Congruent Corporation
110 Greene Street
New York City, NY 10012
(212) 431 – 5100
(212) 219 – 1532 (f)

Anyone ever heard of Congruent? Sounds almost Cygnus like.

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