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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Eliminating -mno-cygwin from gcc?
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On Jan 31 08:31, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 02:27:00PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> >Eric Blake, le Wed 31 Jan 2007 06:18:22 -0700, a ?crit :
> >> I would much rather call the cross-compiler i686-mingw-gcc than the
> >> current name of 'gcc -mno-cygwin'.
> >
> >Same for me.
> 
> Thinking about this some more, it seems like we'd need a real
> cygwin-based mingw cross compiler rather than a wrapped mingw compiler
> since otherwise there would be path and signal issues.

While I agree with the general idea, I have to add the obligatory hint
that there are many projects out there which build environment requires
`gcc -mno-cygwin' to work.  All of them will break with at least 50% of
the lost user base asking on the Cygwin list for help.

So I'm wondering if we are not better off with sticking to the
`gcc -mno-cygwin' interface, regardless how this is implemented under
the hood.

> And, as long as we're talking about cross-compilers, a cygwin -> linux
> cross compiler would probably be nice, too.

Sorry, but we don't support Linux on this mailing list. ;)


Corinna

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