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Re: GCC -mno-cygwin vs mingw32-gcc cross environment.


Hi!

Friday, 20 April, 2001 Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com wrote:

EB> I've just successfully completed building a Cygwin native cross build
EB> environment for --target=mingw32.  While I'm cleaning up the code
EB> modifications I would like to ask if we should consider deprecating the
EB> -mno-cygwin switch in favor of the cross environment?

EB> I would rather see the cross build environment become standard because
EB> it is a natural for autoconfiguration.  You just add --host=mingw32 to
EB> the configuration scripts instead of needing to do CC='gcc -mno-cygwin'
EB> configure ... .

EB> Comments?

-mno-cygwin is currently used when building parts of cygwin itself. we
must be dealing with it somehow.

i don't think we should deprecate -mno-cygwin (i believe it's quite
handy sometimes) but rather discourage using it when it's natural to
configure with --host=mingw32

Egor.            mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19



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