Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 08:22:38 +0300 (IDT)
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Subject: Re: Cygnus libstdc++
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On Sun, 21 May 2000, Chris Mears wrote:

> It says that the compiler you need is GCC 2.952.  Do you think it
> would work then?

No, I don't think it will work.

GCC used by Cygwin is configured differently than the same GCC version 
used by DJGPP.  This in itself should be a reason good enough to think 
any mixing won't work, since C++ code needs special help from Binutils 
configuration and the binary format used for object files (and these 
differ between DJGPP and Cygwin).  On top of that, a C++ library relies 
on the C library, which is again different in Cygwin.

Did I say not to hold your breath? ;-)

Anyway, libstdc++ is not yet released (AFAIK), so what you might have 
from Cygwin is probably some beta-quality snapshot.  Do you really need 
the new features that badly?