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From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
To: "Peter A. Castro" <doctor AT fruitbat DOT org>,
   "Andrew DeFaria" <ADeFaria AT Salira DOT com>
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Subject: Re: impure_ptr/Mingw and Cygwin
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 11:32:06 -0000
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Peter A. Castro <doctor AT fruitbat DOT org> wrote:

> Well, for one thing, linking with -lg will pull in cygwin.dll since
> /lib/libg.a is a symlink to libcygwin.a.  So your program won't be
> Cygwin-free, if that's your goal.  However, I got it to work with the
> following command:
> 
> $ gcc -g foo.c -mno-cygwin -mwindows -o foo -liberty -lmingw32
> $ ./foo.exe > x
> $ cat x
> Hello World
> 
> If you change 'stderr' to 'stdout' you get "Hello World 2" in the
> output too.  You'll have to play with carriage control a bit, but
> basically it works.  Windows doesn't really have the concept of a
> stderr file handle, so this behaviour makes sense to me. 

Hmm.... :

$ gcc -g foo.c -mno-cygwin -mwindows -o foo -liberty -lmingw32
$ ./foo.exe > x
Hello World 2
$ cat x
Hello World

How odd. I get the stderr output just fine.

Why the -mwindows -liberty -lmingw32 switches? They are unnecessary.

Max.


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