Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: merging mingw and cygwin Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 09:03:21 -0700 Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <20031011001648.GG2659@mdssirds.comp.pge.com> <6.0.0.22.0.20031012123242.01d10978@mail.chariot.net.au> <20031012052757.GB12191@mdssirds.comp.pge.com> <1065936902.844.19.camel@localhost> <20031012062347.GA12677@mdssirds.comp.pge.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en,ru In-Reply-To: <20031012062347.GA12677@mdssirds.comp.pge.com> Edward Peschko wrote: >> As for needing two dev environments, you been instructed how to use >> cygwin to compile to both, so I must conclude you are not actually >> trying to comprehend the emails, just arguing for the sake of it. > > That is exactly my point. if cygwin can do both, and cygwin can create > either native win32 executables or unix executables, then WHY ARE > THERE TWO PROJECTS? Have you tried to compile an application using -mno-cygwin? Have you tried to run the resulting executable? I have. I created an application using -mno-cygwin and to my surprise it became "Windows" like in that thinks like pathnames had to be specified in Window'ese. So before, in the Cygwin environment I could: $ myapp /path/to/file but now, after -mno-cygwin I must: $ myapp C:\\path\\to\\file Without Cygwin's POSIX emulation pathnames don't translate very well. That's probably not the only thing that you'll find as "non-unix-like" in the runtime environment. As such I would think producing MingW only versions of the various Cygwin apps would be from problematic to impossible, however, you are welcomed to try if you'd like to expend the energy... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/