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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 15:00:44 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-noreply AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: gcc as strictly win32 compiler
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On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 07:26:12PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
>If you are not using any of the unix APIs, you may be interested in the
>MinGW project (mingw.sf.net). Cygwin's gcc takes the -mno-cygwin option
>which causes it to function as a MinGW compiler - i.e. the produced exes use
>MSVCRT, not cygwin1.dll.

And as a fish teaching exercise, you might be interested in the command:

gcc -v --help 2>&1 | less

which tells you about -mno-cygwin among other things.

Also, perhaps more importantly, the FAQ has a section entitled "How do I
compile a Win32 executable that doesn't use Cygwin?"

cgf
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