I've been reading and using this little book for the past few weeks. I'm an experienced C programmer but I wanted to switch to GCC having abandoned both Borland (my version was getting quite old) & Microsoft (messy with a crippled deployment system) compilers on Win XP.



This small book, and that is one of its great charms, is perfect. It REALLY helped me make the transition and I have been very sucessfully building code on Ubuntu Linux and Win XP (MinGW) with GCC. Once up and running the more subtle features can be found on the web at the GNU website (an example for me was how to switch off certain warnings such as -Wno-unused).



Though GCC is intrinsically tied to Linux the information in the book is readily translatable to the MinGW-Win XP environment.