On 02/08/2012 09:49 AM, Jesse Ziser wrote: > On 2/7/2012 11:58 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 05:14:59PM -0600, Jesse Ziser wrote: >>> If you really want Mingw (a free compiler and development environment >>> for Windows), maybe what you should do is just download and install >>> Mingw, and use that, instead of doing it through the Cygwin compiler >>> using a barely-supported option. (Then you should get help with any >>> problems you have over at Mingw's website instead of here.) >> >> 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.
I think there is a tiny misunderstanding here. I believe that Jesse was talking about the -mno-cygwin option when he spoke of "using a barely-supported option". Chris seems to have misinterpreted that to mean that MinGW cross-compilers themselves were claimed to be "barely-supported". The -mno-cygwin option for GCC v3 was certainly deprecated for some time now and announced in the mailing list as I recall, and support for it always seemed uncertain at best to me. As of GCC v4, that option is dead; however, the MinGW cross compilers included with Cygwin continue to have full support. I hope I didn't just add to the confusion here. :-) -Jeremy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple