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Re: Using -mno-cygwin flag


On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 06:34:46PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>----Original Message----
>>From: Christopher Faylor
>>Sent: 04 May 2005 18:20
>
>
>> as to ignore correctly installed libraries.  You just have to put the
>> libraries and headers in locations that are searched when -mno-cygwin
>> is used.  Those locations are distinct from the locations used when
>> -mno-cygwin is not provided -- for frighteningly obvious reasons.
>> 
>> "/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/include" and "/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/lib" would be
>> the place to put the headers/libraries.
>> 
>> /usr/include/mingw is also searched for the header files.  I don't
>> remember if /usr/local/lib/mingw is searched for library files.
>
>.... but anyone can easily find out for themselves, using the command "gcc
>-mno-cygwin -print-search-dirs"  (and for interest's sake, compare it to the
>output you get without -mno-cygwin).
>
>  Hm.  Why should "gcc -mno-cygwin" be looking in /lib and /usr/lib, where
>it's only likely to find cygwin libraries?  That looks a bit wrong to me....

Not only is it wrong, it has been mentioned as a problem here before.

cgf

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