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Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 13:02:44 -0400
To: sds@gnu.org, cygwin@cygwin.com
From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Using -mno-cygwin flag
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At 12:53 PM 5/4/2005, you wrote:
>> * Brian Dessent <oevna@qrffrag.arg> [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.

That's something to take up with the MinGW folks (www.mingw.org).




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