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Re: Does Cygwin's `-mno-cygwin' need Mingw?


On 16-Oct-2000, Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 02:51:05AM +1100, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> >Does the `-mno-cygwin' option to gcc work "out of the box" with Cygwin?
> >In other words, does the Cygwin distribution include Mingw? 
> >Does it need to?
...
> >(I spent a bit of time trawling the Cygwin and Mingw web sites in
> >search of the answer to this fairly basic question, but I didn't spot
> >it in the FAQs.)
> 
> Isn't this question pretty easily answered by just trying to compile
> using -mno-cygwin?

I tried that first off, but it failed to compile the program I was
compiling. The failure looked like it was probably for other reasons
than Mingw not being properly installed (in particular lack of support
for the MS extension `__try'), but I wanted to be sure.

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