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Re: Available for test: gcc-2.95.2-7


Christopher Abbey wrote:
> 
> Today, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 01:05:06AM -0600, Christopher Abbey wrote:
> [...]
> > > but then I
> > >wasn't expecting much yet, because i remember Earnie specfically talking
> > >about having to have different libraries.
> >
> > Why are you expecting that c++ will magically work?  I didn't mention this in
> > the announcement and it wasn'at a goal for the release.
> 
> ummm... like I said, "I wasn't expecting much yet, because I remember
> Earnie specifically talking about having to have different libraries."
> a thought which sparked the next thing I tried which did eventually lead
> to a successfull build....   I know it wasn't a goal for the release,
> but the goal that was in the release (looking in a different location
> when -mno-cygwin was used) was half of what I beleived I needed to make
> it work, and it was a half that I currently wasn't able to build for
> myself... so I combined that with existing libs... hey presto it worked.
> 

Let me summarize:

1) Install gcc-2.95.2-7
2) add the MinGW version of libstdc++.a to /usr/lib/mingw/
3) voila, you can build C++ executables with the -mno-cygwin switch

Is this correct?

Earnie.

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