Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 13:14:55 -0400 To: cygwin Mailing Subject: Re: Does Cygwin's `-mno-cygwin' need Mingw? Message-ID: <20001016131455.B12252@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin Mailing References: <20001016165111.4193.qmail@web117.yahoomail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.6i In-Reply-To: <20001016165111.4193.qmail@web117.yahoomail.com>; from earnie_boyd@yahoo.com on Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 09:51:11AM -0700 On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 09:51:11AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote: >--- Fergus Henderson wrote: >>Does the `-mno-cygwin' option to gcc work "out of the box" with Cygwin? > >As long as your code is ANSI compliant it will work. The -mno-cygwin >switch uses the crtdll library. It is not setup to use msvcrt. It >will be planned to use the msvcrt library in the future. > >>In other words, does the Cygwin distribution include Mingw? Does it >>need to? >> > >The -mno-cygwin switch of the Cygwin product is not considered MinGW by >the MinGW development team. MinGW has it's own set of GCC/binutils >tools. We are currently in the process of preparing a more upto date >package. This is a recent stance, though. Mumit tried hard to make sure that the mingw libraries and include files distributed by cygwin were the same as the ones distributed in the mingw "stand-alone". In theory, if we're using the same libraries and headers, we should be producing the same code. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com