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Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 13:35:04 -0400
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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Earnie - 
 Thank you for this explanation. I've been on this list for ages, but
never quite understood the diffference between MinGW and -mno-cygwin.
This should be a *cygwin* FAQ.

--Chuck


Earnie Boyd wrote:
> 
> --- Mo DeJong <mdejong AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:
> -8<-
> > When I build with mingwin, it bails out
> > saying it can not find direct.h.
> >
> > BASH.EXE-2.03$ gcc -mno-cygwin -c WIN32.C
> > WIN32.C:2: direct.h: No such file or directory
> >
> -8<-
> 
> I'm going to get picky here.  Using Cygwin gcc with the -mno-cygwin switch is
> not MinGW.  There is a different gcc which Mumit distributes that is native to
> Win32 and thus is the MinGW GCC toolset.  You can get this from the pointers at
> http://www.mingw.org.
> 
> Using the -mno-cygwin switch is sort of a cross compile.  You have a separate
> set of headers, a separate set of libraries and a special switch which is
> controlled via the specs file.
> 
> Mumit has on his site a "howto" for using the -mno-cygwin switch successfully.
> This information is in the volumes of archives.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> =====
> ---
>    Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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