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Charles Wilson wrote:
> Pursuant to a discussion on the libtool list, I'm trying to get a feel
> for how many cygwin users rely on the cygwin environment to drive the
> *native* MinGW gcc compiler.  That is, incantations like this:

<snip>

I find myself bouncing around between cygwin and mingw because
each one helps me accomplish different tasks.

I use the Cygwin environment (including vim) for the actual
software development of embedded systems, and to host the
different gcc flavours needed for each target processor. There's
lots of great tools ready to go, and it's now possible
to drive the install from the command line, which makes it
easy to reproduce a specific workstation configuration.

Occasionally, I want to compile special tools that I can
redistribute without source, so I use mingw for that.

I have a build framework for embedded systems that I use for
all my projects - even PC based ones. If I'm compiling third
party software that comes with a makefile or autoconf script
then I'll use that.

Once you start designing makefiles that have to work with
multiple compiler versions and flags and include and library
paths, it gets complicated very quickly :-)

One reason I have not tried to drive the native MinGW compiler
is because of the path issues for includes and libraries. I
was worried that Cygwin includes and libraries would accidentally
get referenced.

Ralph

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