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Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 10:19:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: Two queries - flex, and no-cygwin linking with msvcrt.dll
To: Cliff Hones <cliff AT aonix DOT co DOT uk>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Cc: cliff AT aonix DOT co DOT uk
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--- Cliff Hones <cliff AT aonix DOT co DOT uk> wrote:
> I have two unconnected queries:
> 
> The version of flex currently distributed with Cygwin
> identifies itself as Cygnus version 2.5-cygwin-990830,
> but appears to have been built from sources pre-dating
> the current flex source which is version 2.5.4a, dated
> September 1996.  When I try to use flex during a build
> of bochs (the x86 simulator) I have problems with the
> Cygwin version, while if I rebuild flex (under Cygwin)
> from the 2.5.4a sources all is well.  Is there any
> reason why the Cygwin binary version is out of date?
> 

If there isn't one already, are you willing to be the package maintainer?

> Is it possible to link with msvcrt.dll (rather than
> crtsdll.dll) when using -mno-cygwin?  I see there is
> a libmsvcrt.a included in the cygwin mingw distribution,
> but the crt1.o startup requires crtdll.dll, and I
> am wary of linking an application including parts from
> both.  The gcc-2.95.2-mingw-extra distibution only
> includes the crtdll.dll version, and the mingw runtime
> source distribution (source-2000-03-27.zip) seems to only
> build the crtdll flavour for cygwin.  Is there a good
> reason for this, or could the mingw runtime makefile be
> extended in the 'obvious' way to build a msvcrt version?
> 

It appears that the msvcrt library initialization files aren't setup for some
reason.  As an alternative you could use the MinGW distribution, see
http://www.mingw.org for more information.

Cheers,

=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com

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