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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Using -mno-cygwin flag Mail-Copies-To: never Reply-To: sds@gnu.org X-Attribution: Sam X-Disclaimer: You should not expect anyone to agree with me. From: Sam Steingold In-Reply-To: <42789D45.6F74436D@dessent.net> (Brian Dessent's message of "Wed, 04 May 2005 03:00:37 -0700") References: <20050504091922.GD7475@monster.octa4.net> <42789D45.6F74436D@dessent.net> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 12:53:26 -0400 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain > * Brian Dessent [2005-05-04 03:00:37 -0700]: > > -mno-cygwin does not just "make things that doesn't depend on the > cygwin DLL", it removes Cygwin from the equation entirely. this is very unfortunate, actually. things like berkeley-db, postgresql, pcre &c all have a native win32 port, and it it a pity that -mno-cygwin does not use them. -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running w2k All extremists should be taken out and shot. -- 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/