Christopher Faylor schrieb:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 04:03:28PM +0200, Christof Petig wrote:
>
>>[Summary: Cygwin is good to compile programs on win32 with minimal
>>porting effort, but a stable port should use MinGW]
I meant build target not compiler tool chain.
> Summary: If you want to ignore all of the work that has gone into
> -mno-cygwin to make it work reliably, then use MinGW.
That was not what I said. I said nothing about the cygwin toolchain but
about the build target.
Last year the -mno-cygwin (I need C++ & libtool !!!) support was suited
to give me a lots of headaches and made me angry to have even tried. I
never got a reliable gtkmm.dll out of that! And I tried for weeks.
From my experience and reading on the MinGW list:
- there seemed to be no one at cygwin interested in reliably maintaining
the no-cygwin part.
- Mixing header files and import libraries was easily done within
cygwin. The result normally failed to link or crashed randomly
- C++ support for -mno-cygwin was severely damaged
And I was not aware that it improved _that_ much. I still can't believe
that the cygwin toolchain will give you a -mno-cygwin environment
without lots of (undocumented?) 'never do this' and 'do it this way'.
Sorry, too much negative personal experience with cygwin on my side
Christof
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