OK, thanks. I was not aware that -mno-cygwin was causing MinGW to be
used instead of Cygwin...
I'll get back to MinGW there, although I did not get much help there
previsously (which is why I was trying to move to using Cygwin).
Many thanks for the explanation
I'll make one last try with the configure line suggested by Martin.
Xavier
Dave Korn wrote:
>On 15 February 2006 19:08, Xavier Marichal wrote:
>
>
>
>>Basically, I want to compile make using Cygwin, but in a way that is
>>independent from Cygwin (hence the -mno-cygwin). I'm sorry if I
>>offended someone...
>>
>>
>
> It's not an offence, but the thing is that if you use -mno-cygwin, you
>aren't using cygwin, and in particular, you aren't using the Cygwin
version of
>gcc. You are using the MinGW version of the compiler, with the MinGW
system
>headers and MinGW libraries.
>
>
>
>>I suppose I'll have to investigate it alone then, since I suppose it
>>must be possible to provide -mno-cygwin as a flag to configure.
>>
>>
>
> You could always investigate it on the MinGW list, where they would
like to
>know if there are problems with the MinGW header files that come with the
>MinGW version of the gcc compiler. That was the point I was trying to
make!
>
>
> cheers,
> DaveK
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