> I saw your earlier mail on this list - but by that time, I had already got > round the problems I was having doing the compilation. However, I note that > you've been compiling with mingw32 rather than cygwin/gcc. Does that make a > significant difference? I have not used mingw32 directly (though I've used > programs compiled with it) - my understanding is that it does not provide > all of the posix layers in the same way as cygwin, but it is faster, > especially for file i/o. Would it be fair to say then that your builds will > compile faster?
My impression is that Cygwin-compiled exes need a much longer time for startup. Furthermore they are dependant on a quite large DLL, while mingw only needs the standard DLLs from windows. > How does building on mingw32 differ from building under cygwin? The actual > compilation is probably straight-forward (I have a copy of the mingw32 > compiler, even though I haven't used it), but what about the traditional > ./configure && make && make install sequence? You have to patch gcc: http://combio.de/avr/gcc-3.0-mingw32.patch Everything else is the same. Andreas -- WWW: http://andreas-s.net ICQ: 83580609
