Jon, Search isn't working so I can't find the reference but didn't you say you had installed Cygwin and were starting to play around with it? If you do have Cygwin then you already have the complete gcc suite of compilers including MinGW support. That means you can write or modify nearly any program you wish and create stand-alone binaries including full GUI programs that can be compiled for Windows, KDE, Gnome or any UNIX-like OS and GUI you have libraries for.

The advantage of using GCC from Cygwin is that everything is always standard and up to date and you get the benefit of a large number of developers worldwide working to make it better. With Cygwin and GCC you not only get a complete GNU/Linux development environment, you can also use Dev-C++, a full-featured Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the C/C++ programming language.
It uses Mingw port of GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) as it's compiler. It can creates native Win32 executables,
either console or GUI, as well as DLLs and static libraries. Dev-C++ can also be used in combination with Cygwin
or any other GCC based compiler.

Just trying to make your life easier. <g>

      - Mark