Subject: Re: g77 -mno-cygwin failed
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <[email-masked]>
To: Igor Pechtchanski <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 17:21:56 +0200

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>> There is a softlink missing in
>> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-mingw32/3.3.1 and
>> hence missing in gcc-mingw-3.3.1-20030804.tar
>> Making this softlink from within this subdir fixes the problem:

>> ln -s ../../i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.1/f771.exe f771.exe

> No, no, no!  This will produce an executable linked with Cygwin (as can be
> verified by running "cygcheck" on it).  You don't want that -- you want
> MinGW executables to be regular Windows programs, using MSVCRT.DLL as
> their C/Fortran runtime.

Why?  What are the -mno-cygwin flags good for then?  This was also the
way it was in gcc-3.2-x and it worked IIRC.

Gerrit
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