The Definitive Guide to GCC

I have only just received this book, so maybe my early impressions might be moderated as I become more familiar with it.I have already been using GCC for some time, and I bought the book in the hope that I could better understand the range of capabilities that GCC has, such as compiling Java, and compiling in a Windows environment.The book geared almost exclusively to Linux users. It is true that the majority of GCC users are using it on Linux or various flavours of Unix, but many, like myself, use it as a cross platform tool, including compiling under Windows. Although the second chapter is about installing the Cygwin or DJGPP compilers on Windows, it deliberately excludes looking at the MinGW compiler. It tells you very little about the specific issues involved working under Windows. It very much appears that the people writing the book are Linux gurus, and other environments appear alien to them.What the book does do well is go into great depth about the use of GCC for compiling C programs on a Linux environment. It also goes into detail about using some of the supporting tools available on Linux, such as autoconf, libtool and info.If you want a book that goes into very great depth about how to compile C code under Linux using GCC, then this is a very good book; but for what I was hoping for, it simply lacks the breadth.