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enovack wrote:

> It's just a pain since this used to work on my old laptop, which had a
> previous version of cygwin installed.

  Sorry about that.  Primarily the goal of cygwin is to provide a linux-like
environment and linux-like behaviour, and from that point of view the ability
to switch the system default compiler was something that was a deficiency
while it was missing.  We don't go out of our way to break other usages such
as an external win32 app trying to launch a cygwin app from a non-cygwin
environment, but we can't always make everything compatible with win32 at the
expense of linux compatability.  I am surprised you're having problems though,
as with /bin in the windows PATH and invoking the particular compiler by name
it should all "just work".  (Yeah... famous last words!)

  It might also be possible to use "cygstart" as a wrapper to launch the plain
"gcc" shortcut and even take advantage of the "alternatives" wrapper from
within your applications, although I can't promise.

> Best,
> Eileen
> 
> 
> Dave Korn-6 wrote:

  Hey!  I just got .so versioned! :-)

    cheers,
      DaveK


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