Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Ben Taylor" To: "Cygwin List" Subject: RE: Using gcc 3.3.3 Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 20:58:57 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.0.20040314135245.03478640@127.0.0.1> X-HotPOP: ----------------------------------------------- Sent By HotPOP.com FREE Email Get your FREE POP email at www.HotPOP.com ----------------------------------------------- How do I apply patches to my existing Cygwin installation? > -----Original Message----- > From: Larry Hall [mailto:cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com] > Sent: 14 March 2004 18:59 > To: Ben Taylor; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Subject: Re: Using gcc 3.3.3 > > > At 09:50 AM 3/14/2004, you wrote: > >Hi > > > >I have got Cygwin running on my windows XP pc, using gcc 3.3.1. > I downloaded > >gcc 3.3.3 release, and managed to build it, however when I tried > to compile > >a windows application using it it compiled ok but gave a linker error > >'couldn't find crt2.o'. It gave this error when I was trying to compile > >with -mno-cygwin, which worked with gcc 3.3.1. I found that this > file was in > >c:/cygwin/lib/mingw, but passing an option on to the linker such > >as -Wl,"-Lc:/cygwin/lib/mingw" or other variations on this didn't work. > >However when I copied the crt2.o file to c:/cygwin/lib, it > worked! But then > >I read that -mno-cygwin wasn't included on gcc 3.3.3. So was > this a fluke? > >Or is there a standard way to use gcc 3.3.3 on cygwin? > > > >Also if I used g++ 3.3.3 to compile but g++ 3.3.1 that came with > cygwin to > >link, it also works fine! Is it then actually using the benefits > of the more > >modern version? > > > The gcc compiler suite for Cygwin contains patches to include the > '-mno-cygwin' switch. Since gcc 3.3.3 isn't part of the Cygwin > distribution yet, you would need to patch your local version if > you want this functionality prior to it's inclusion in Cygwin. > > > > -- > Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com > RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office > 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX > Holliston, MA 01746 > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/