Serial Port Communication White Paper

[Dave Flowerday]

And that's why I use Linux for any real work

Ahh.. that's what I like to hear As far as compiling Windows programs in Linux, I've personally never tried it, but have you looked into Wine? They have a Windows compatible API that is supposed to allow you to easily compile programs written for Windows under Linux. They also have a runtime loader that is able to execute some Windows programs under Linux directly without recompiling. I have used this part of it, mainly just to see if it works. It is possible to bring up Word and Internet Explorer, so I imagine smaller, simpler programs will probably work even better.

BTW, do you have the names of any good GUI front ends to gcc?

Unfortunately I don't off the top of my head. Like I said, I just use a text editor and command line personally. I know I've seen some out there that looked pretty good, although I don't know if they were available for Windows or not. If there are any for Linux that are open source, it would probably be possible to compile them for Windows using Cygwin. You're probably already aware of it, but I personally find that the best site for finding free software (mostly for Linux, but some Windows stuff too) is Freshmeat.