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Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:12:47 -0600
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On 2/8/2012 10:04 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb  8 09:49, Jesse Ziser wrote:
>> On 2/7/2012 11:58 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> The MinGW cross-compiles are not "barely supported".  They are included
>>> in the distribution precisely so that people can build pure-windows
>>> programs under Cygwin.
>>
>> Oh?  Then I got the wrong impression from the documentation and the
>> mailing list when I was trying to work all that out a few years ago.
>> I can't find it now, but I could swear there was something about it
>> being "deprecated" or "partially supported" or something.
>
> Deprecated was only the -mno-cygwin option for the cygwin gcc.  The
> non-deprecated and much cleaner solution is what we have in the distro
> now: A full-fledged cross-compiler for the mingw32 target.

The Cygwin gcc option was exactly what I was talking about.  Thanks, 
Corinna and Jeremy.  Sorry for the confusion.

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