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OK, thanks. I was not aware that -mno-cygwin was causing MinGW to be 
used instead of Cygwin...
I'll get back to MinGW there, although I did not get much help there 
previsously (which is why I was trying to move to using Cygwin).
Many thanks for the explanation

I'll make one last try with the configure line suggested by Martin.

Xavier

Dave Korn wrote:

 >On 15 February 2006 19:08, Xavier Marichal wrote:
 >
 > 
 >
 >>Basically, I want to compile make using Cygwin, but in a way that is
 >>independent from Cygwin (hence the -mno-cygwin). I'm sorry if I
 >>offended someone...
 >>   
 >>
 >
 >  It's not an offence, but the thing is that if you use -mno-cygwin, you
 >aren't using cygwin, and in particular, you aren't using the Cygwin 
version of
 >gcc.  You are using the MinGW version of the compiler, with the MinGW 
system
 >headers and MinGW libraries.
 >
 > 
 >
 >>I suppose I'll have to investigate it alone then, since I suppose it
 >>must be possible to provide -mno-cygwin as a flag to configure.
 >>   
 >>
 >
 >  You could always investigate it on the MinGW list, where they would 
like to
 >know if there are problems with the MinGW header files that come with the
 >MinGW version of the gcc compiler.  That was the point I was trying to 
make!
 >
 >
 >    cheers,
 >      DaveK

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