From: aecquest AT ciens DOT ula DOT ve (AECEULA, QUEST Team) Subject: Re: Default compiler behaviour for b19 11 Sep 1997 15:16:33 -0700 Message-ID: <3417FCFF.41C67EA6cygnus.gnu-win32@ciens.ula.ve> References: <199709100551 DOT JAA16249 AT rp3 DOT menatep DOT ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Andrey A. Kulaga" The idea of generating native win32 binaries by default (i think) is a great advance, because you can make your programs to be independient. It's true that GCC comes from Unix, but if you can make native win32 binaries with it, it's a very powerful tool. And i want to have it ! Andrey A. Kulaga wrote: > > It's very important to me to have possibility produce native win32 binaries. > It doesn't matter, whether this option will be default. I like GNU tools, but i > want my code be portable between compilers. That's why l'm using Minimalist > package by Colin Peters (thanks for them). > > -------------------- > > Date: Fri, 05 Sep 1997 11:23:31 +1000 > > From: Anthony Wesley > > Reply-To: awesley AT mail DOT acquerra DOT com DOT au > > > > Perhaps I am misreading the comments on the gnuwin32 home page, but it > > looks like Cygnus are proposing to have "gcc -o foo foo.c" generate > > native win32 binaries by default and not link with cygwin.dll. To > > compile UNIX-ish tools and link with the cygwin.dll library you will > > have to supply an extra command line option. > > > > This seems silly to me, and the wrong way around. After all, gcc and all > > the nice tools and development environment came from the UNIX land, so > > surely generating UNIX-ish binaries should be the default, making > > porting UNIX applications and tools the native mode, whereas generating > > pure win32 binaries should be the "foreign" mode. > > > > It would be really strange to have "gcc -o foo foo.c" not work as > > expected by people coming from the UNIX world. I realise that this > > behavious could be covered up (eg have an environment variable to select > > the mode, or put it in the gcc compiler-options file) but I believe that > > it would still be the wrong attitude by Cygnus to do this. > > > > Just my AUS $0.0215 worth .. :-) > > > > Anthony > > - > > For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to > > "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". > > - > For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to > "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".