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Re: -mno-cygwin


On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 12:22:11PM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> 
>> On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 12:56:09AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>> >How hard would an alias to -mno-cygwin of -mmingw be? If we're using
>> >mingw libraries and headers,we might get less "why doesn't -mno-cygwin
>> >let me use unix feature questions".
>> >
>> >Then again, maybe not
>> 
>> Somehow I doubt it.  To rephrase the question:
>> 
>> "How come when I use the option to turn off the UNIX emulation support
>> I can't use UNIX features."
>> 
>> IMO, -mno-cygwin makes more sense than -mmingw.  Maybe a -mno-unix would
>> be clearer, though.
>> 
>
>As you said it's YO and MO is that -mcygwin, -mcrtdll and -mmsvcrt makes
>even more sense.

Except what's a "msvcrt" or a "crtdll"?  They're just strings of characters.

Expecting people to know about these DLLs or any package name other than
cygwin or (maybe) unix seems like it would still be subject to confusion.

cgf

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