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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 09:43:07 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: Christopher Faylor <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Available for test: gcc-2.95.2-7
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In-Reply-To: <3A79755E.FF0837BC@yahoo.com>; from earnie_boyd@yahoo.com on Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 09:40:30AM -0500

On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 09:40:30AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>Christopher Abbey wrote:
>> 
>> Today, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> > On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 01:05:06AM -0600, Christopher Abbey wrote:
>> [...]
>> > > but then I
>> > >wasn't expecting much yet, because i remember Earnie specfically talking
>> > >about having to have different libraries.
>> >
>> > Why are you expecting that c++ will magically work?  I didn't mention this in
>> > the announcement and it wasn'at a goal for the release.
>> 
>> ummm... like I said, "I wasn't expecting much yet, because I remember
>> Earnie specifically talking about having to have different libraries."
>> a thought which sparked the next thing I tried which did eventually lead
>> to a successfull build....   I know it wasn't a goal for the release,
>> but the goal that was in the release (looking in a different location
>> when -mno-cygwin was used) was half of what I beleived I needed to make
>> it work, and it was a half that I currently wasn't able to build for
>> myself... so I combined that with existing libs... hey presto it worked.
>> 
>
>Let me summarize:
>
>1) Install gcc-2.95.2-7
>2) add the MinGW version of libstdc++.a to /usr/lib/mingw/
>3) voila, you can build C++ executables with the -mno-cygwin switch
>
>Is this correct?

If it is, and someone can send me a version of libstdc++.a, I'll make a new
gcc release.

cgf

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