Re: It does involve cygwin

[Shawn Kielty <shawnkielty at earthlink dot net>]

I can't imagine any one actually working in the real world even caring about any of this.  I joined this mailing list a couple of days ago.  I thought it would be interesting ... but this ... it's just painful.    
On 4 Apr 2013, at 10:45 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 02:37:11PM +0900, wynfield@gmail.com wrote:
>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 02:59:01PM -0400, Eliot Moss wrote:
>>>> On 4/4/2013 2:40 PM, Eliot Moss wrote:
>>> ....snipped
>>> If you have to enter MinGW land to perform what the OP wants then that
>>> is a really clear indication that this is off-topic.
>> 
>> That is illogical, just because the very good advice above explains a
>> method of how it could be done using another system, does not make it
>> irrelavant to cygwin.  That's like saying compiling can be done with
>> Microsoft C, so gcc is not relevant to cygwin.
> 
> Perhaps you should read the description of what is on-topic for this
> list at http://cygwin.com/lists.html .
> 
>>> I think we've seen an adequate amount of advice for how the OP can
>>> proceed.  There was a suggestion that one could look at the disassembled
>>> output from gcc to see how it does things.  That's probably the best
>>> advice for how to proceed, regardless of the platform.
>> 
>> Does this mean that you'll honor your word and take it off line to
>> answer practical questions regarding this issue?
> 
> Now you're sounding delusional.
> 
> Please stop this.  First and only warning.
> 
> cgf
> 
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