Thanks !

["Mauro Ferreira" <mauroferreira enersulnet com br>]

Let you know (again for some) some of my personal 'history':

I'm started as a C programmer but only for business and sometimes
engineering purposes (K&R, 8 bit/2Mhz processors times - someone here
'touched' an TRS80 with NewDos and AzTech K&R C ?).

But with the PC era all changed, with new languages and enviroinments -
with a strange phenomena: even the smallest program ever turn in a huge
and slow executable. This was for too long time that i forgot the old
1:1 relation between source & object.

Months ago i started a seek for portability; phpGtk, fox, fltk, qt,
wxWindows and some minor others was tryed. All gave me some problems
inside the solutions, and except a phpGtk honorable exception (very
good, but interpreted and instable yet - Andrei Zmievski is working hard
and well, but even a master need time to fix things). PhpGtk give me a
clue about GTK; and i started to learn about and asking (and irritating)
a lot.

15 min. ago i finished to debug a small but complete database
maintenence program in C using mingw 2.95.2, GTK+ 1.3 and mySql 3.23.40.
The source size is around 30kb; the executable size is 28kb, is FAST and
stable as a mountain - and now i know all i need to port all my apps to
GTK+; when finished, the next step will be jump to linux and 'forget'
windows (the only windows version i liked to work with was win3.11 - aka
wfw).

This all is for just say:

Thanks to you all !

First, thanks for the GNU team; without you and your dreams the world
freedom cannot be told about programming subjects. Your courage and
persistence are examples to seek.

Thanks for the GTK+ windows and the Cygwin teams, for give me (and for a
lot, i think) a safe bridge
to turn to the linux world.

Thanks for all that give me clues pointing the right directions, and

Thanks for all that disagree me; this gave me things to think and learn.

And i returned to the 1:1 size relation between source and executable,
and recall how many fast a small program can be. Now hands on work !

Mauro Ferreira
mauroferreira enersulnet com br