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 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3AC4E5F9.E84767B8@yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 15:00:57 -0500 From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: Earnie Boyd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: -mno-cygwin References: <044601c0b929$91291400$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> <20010330110640.B12883@redhat.com> <3AC4C0C3.6C3DD7F9@yahoo.com> <20010330133443.A29516@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 12:22:11PM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote: > >Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> > >> On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 12:56:09AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: > >> >How hard would an alias to -mno-cygwin of -mmingw be? If we're using > >> >mingw libraries and headers,we might get less "why doesn't -mno-cygwin > >> >let me use unix feature questions". > >> > > >> >Then again, maybe not > >> > >> Somehow I doubt it. To rephrase the question: > >> > >> "How come when I use the option to turn off the UNIX emulation support > >> I can't use UNIX features." > >> > >> IMO, -mno-cygwin makes more sense than -mmingw. Maybe a -mno-unix would > >> be clearer, though. > >> > > > >As you said it's YO and MO is that -mcygwin, -mcrtdll and -mmsvcrt makes > >even more sense. > > Except what's a "msvcrt" or a "crtdll"? They're just strings of characters. > > Expecting people to know about these DLLs or any package name other than > cygwin or (maybe) unix seems like it would still be subject to confusion. > I expect that know one knows anything except perhaps the creator and that can be said to be questionable?! ;^) Why doesn't -mno-cygwin mean that no runtime is supplied at all and I have to supply my own? As you can see "no-cygwin" is "just a string of characters". It has no more meaning than msvcrt or crtdll and is in fact less descriptive. Earnie. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple