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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 02:07:54 +1100
From: Fergus Henderson <fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT oz DOT au>
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Subject: Re: Does Cygwin's `-mno-cygwin' need Mingw?
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On 16-Oct-2000, Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 02:51:05AM +1100, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> >Does the `-mno-cygwin' option to gcc work "out of the box" with Cygwin?
> >In other words, does the Cygwin distribution include Mingw? 
> >Does it need to?
...
> >(I spent a bit of time trawling the Cygwin and Mingw web sites in
> >search of the answer to this fairly basic question, but I didn't spot
> >it in the FAQs.)
> 
> Isn't this question pretty easily answered by just trying to compile
> using -mno-cygwin?

I tried that first off, but it failed to compile the program I was
compiling. The failure looked like it was probably for other reasons
than Mingw not being properly installed (in particular lack of support
for the MS extension `__try'), but I wanted to be sure.

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