X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4F329EFF.2080406@arlut.utexas.edu> Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:12:47 -0600 From: Jesse Ziser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Documentation on -mno-cygwin Accuracy References: <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> <20120208160423.GP25129@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20120208160423.GP25129@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed 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 2/8/2012 10:04 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 8 09:49, Jesse Ziser wrote: >> On 2/7/2012 11:58 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> 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. > > Deprecated was only the -mno-cygwin option for the cygwin gcc. The > non-deprecated and much cleaner solution is what we have in the distro > now: A full-fledged cross-compiler for the mingw32 target. The Cygwin gcc option was exactly what I was talking about. Thanks, Corinna and Jeremy. Sorry for the confusion. -- +---------------------------+ | Jesse Ziser, Code Warrior | | Applied Research Labs: UT | +---------------------------+ -- 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