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Slightly off-topic, but...


Hi, I've installed qt-win-opensource-4.2.3-mingw.exe from trolltech and I'm using the tools installed by cygwin to develop Qt programs. Well, one could argue I'm not really using cygwin because I have to pass -mno-cygwin when compiling otherwise I get errors for non-trivial programs.
Anyway, -mno-cygwin makes the executables dependent on mingwm10.dll instead of cygwin1.dll, correct? Since my QT programs depend on this dll I can only start them from a cygwin shell since cygwin itself is not in windows path (and I don't think it should be).
My question is how safe is it to put mingwm10.dll in the windows path so I can start my qt programs from explorer? That would mean having two copies of the same dll in the path under cygwin...which I know is bad for cygwin1.dll. I was thinking of writing a startup script that checks that the files are identical so I know when I need to update the copy. I also tried to put a shortcut to the dll but that didn't work which was very unfortunate I think.


Any comments welcome...sorry for being off-topic, but maybe this is of interest to people using cygwin and maybe want to develop Qt programs and don't have a real mingw installation (I don't).

- Eric

PS. I know -mno-cygwin is probably going to be removed in a future version of cygwin's compiler, does that mean I would have to maintain a real mingw installation to develop Qt programs? I have MSVC++ as well, but I believe the Qt version for MSVC++ costs money. Maybe I will buy that later when I really need a debugger I can wrap my head around, heh. DS.


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