X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4F329CCC.6060604@bopp.net> Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:03:24 -0600 From: Jeremy Bopp User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111229 Thunderbird/9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Documentation on -mno-cygwin Accuracy References: <1328569526.8848.3.camel@YAAKOV04> <4F315473.8070106@gmail.com> <4F3180B1.7090007@aol.com> <20120207211251.GF32219@calimero.vinschen.de> <4F31B073.9010501@arlut.utexas.edu> <20120208055848.GC7184@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <4F3299A6.7090105@arlut.utexas.edu> In-Reply-To: <4F3299A6.7090105@arlut.utexas.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 On 02/08/2012 09:49 AM, Jesse Ziser wrote: > On 2/7/2012 11:58 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 05:14:59PM -0600, Jesse Ziser wrote: >>> If you really want Mingw (a free compiler and development environment >>> for Windows), maybe what you should do is just download and install >>> Mingw, and use that, instead of doing it through the Cygwin compiler >>> using a barely-supported option. (Then you should get help with any >>> problems you have over at Mingw's website instead of here.) >> >> The MinGW cross-compiles are not "barely supported". They are included >> in the distribution precisely so that people can build pure-windows >> programs under Cygwin. > > Oh? Then I got the wrong impression from the documentation and the > mailing list when I was trying to work all that out a few years ago. I > can't find it now, but I could swear there was something about it being > "deprecated" or "partially supported" or something. I think there is a tiny misunderstanding here. I believe that Jesse was talking about the -mno-cygwin option when he spoke of "using a barely-supported option". Chris seems to have misinterpreted that to mean that MinGW cross-compilers themselves were claimed to be "barely-supported". The -mno-cygwin option for GCC v3 was certainly deprecated for some time now and announced in the mailing list as I recall, and support for it always seemed uncertain at best to me. As of GCC v4, that option is dead; however, the MinGW cross compilers included with Cygwin continue to have full support. I hope I didn't just add to the confusion here. :-) -Jeremy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple