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Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 20:33:16 -0500 (CDT)
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On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Leonard Williams wrote:

> I could not find relevant answers to this question in the archives.

Look in the archives for mingw-users at lists.sourceforge.net via
www.mingw.org, and you might have better luck.

>         Do I understand correctly that using this flag ( -mno-cygwin)
> in compiling a program for Windows will make it independent of the
> cygwin1.dll?

Yes, but...

> How do I use this?

The package you are compiling must have already been ported to mingw, or
you must do it yourself.

> The level of compiling I do is to unpack (tar xvzf) source code and use
> "make" to compile the program.

Then it will only work for the limited subset of packages discussed above.

> Do I need to add some more stuff to my Cygwin program files?

I don't know what you are asking here.

BTW, futher discussion of this topic is probably considered off-topic for
this list.  Please use the mingw-users list.

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