Mail Archives: cygwin/1997/09/10/08:43:19
It's very important to me to have possibility produce native win32 binaries.
It doesn't matter, whether this option will be default. I like GNU tools, but i
want my code be portable between compilers. That's why l'm using Minimalist
package by Colin Peters (thanks for them).
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> Date: Fri, 05 Sep 1997 11:23:31 +1000
> From: Anthony Wesley <awesley AT acquerra DOT com DOT au>
> Reply-To: awesley AT mail DOT acquerra DOT com DOT au
>
> Perhaps I am misreading the comments on the gnuwin32 home page, but it
> looks like Cygnus are proposing to have "gcc -o foo foo.c" generate
> native win32 binaries by default and not link with cygwin.dll. To
> compile UNIX-ish tools and link with the cygwin.dll library you will
> have to supply an extra command line option.
>
> This seems silly to me, and the wrong way around. After all, gcc and all
> the nice tools and development environment came from the UNIX land, so
> surely generating UNIX-ish binaries should be the default, making
> porting UNIX applications and tools the native mode, whereas generating
> pure win32 binaries should be the "foreign" mode.
>
> It would be really strange to have "gcc -o foo foo.c" not work as
> expected by people coming from the UNIX world. I realise that this
> behavious could be covered up (eg have an environment variable to select
> the mode, or put it in the gcc compiler-options file) but I believe that
> it would still be the wrong attitude by Cygnus to do this.
>
> Just my AUS $0.0215 worth .. :-)
>
> Anthony
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