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Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:03:20 +0100
From: Dave Korn <dave DOT korn DOT cygwin AT googlemail DOT com>
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Charles D. Russell wrote:
> Dave Korn wrote:
>> Charles D. Russell wrote:
>>> Dave Korn wrote:
>>>
>>>>   You have just discovered why -mno-cygwin is a kludgey hack that we
>>>> are removing from future versions of the compiler!
>>> Kludgey perhaps, but handy for me.  If I want to give a copy of one of
>>> my fortran console apps to a colleague, I can simply recompile it with
>>> -mno-cygwin. No knowledge of Windows is required on my part. I'll be
>>> sorry to see that feature go.
>>
>>   Even if I promise to replace it with a fully-fledged and even more
>> importantly, *correct* cross-compiler?  ;-)
>>
> Sounds great, as long as it is simple enough for a dumb engineer who is
> not a programmer.

  It'll just be a matter of replacing "gcc -mno-cygwin" by "i686-pc-mingw32-gcc".

    cheers,
      DaveK

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