X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <49C794CB.3010305@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:55:23 +0000 From: Dave Korn User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: PING: Deprecation of -mno-cygwin. References: <49C6DADF.90305@gmail.com> <20090323093234.GK9322@calimero.vinschen.de> <49C78FA2.4010209@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Steve Thompson wrote: > uOn Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > >> Please, NO! -mno-cygwin needs to go away already. > > Why? > It's a bit of a kludge compared to having a real honest-to-god cross-compiler. It's never worked entirely right in terms of keeping cygwin and mingw headers and libs completely separate. A full-blown mingw cross-compiler won't cost that much in terms of disk space and the reliability and correctness improvements will be worth it. cheers, DaveK -- 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/