X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:36:18 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin compiler and linker options Message-ID: <20080822203618.GA14428@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4126b3450808220352y12a25fddi444e3df3e1cb590a@mail.gmail.com> <002f01c90456$1f080e50$4001a8c0@mycomputer> <5E25AF06EFB9EA4A87C19BC98F5C8753014F88E0@core-email.int.ascribe.com> <20080822151916.GB13113@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <48AEDC08.8020004@bmts.com> <20080822165634.GB13620@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <48AEF814.1020108@bmts.com> <48AF18E7.3020809@etr-usa.com> <48AF1AC6.30603@bmts.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48AF1AC6.30603@bmts.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 04:00:06PM -0400, Ralph Hempel wrote: > arren Young wrote: >>Ralph Hempel wrote: >>>what I think I hear you saying is that when -mno-cygwin is fully >>>deprecated I'll need to build a cross compiler for native Windows >>>executables >>Or, you could install MinGW. Cygwin and MinGW will coexist, side by >>side, without conflict, if you arrange it so only one is in the PATH at >>a time. It's not impossible to have them both in the PATH, but I've >>come across enough strange behavior that I don't do that anymore. > >I know I can install MinGW, but keeping track of their releases and >having to download custom versions of this and that to get all the >parts to play nicely together is such a huge PITA. > >The nice folks at Cygwin have spent a lot of time and mental energy >getting setup to work well (just read cygwin-apps if you don't believe >me), and now that -P is supported it's dead easy to set up from the >command line. > >But thanks for the reminder :-) mingw will soon have their own nice installer too. But that's not really a topic for this mailing list of course. cgf -- 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/