On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
>
> Sean Ma wrote:
>
>> I used to have this simple command to build my own gVim.exe (cygwin
>> independent) for Windows:
>>
>> vim123() { cd /usr/share/vim && svn co
>> https://vim.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/vim/vim7
>> && cd vim7/src && make -f Make_cyg.mak; }
>>
>> However, I found error after downloading cygwin 1.7:
>>
>> ...
>> A vim7/README_lang.txt
>> A vim7/runtime.info
>> ...
>> Checked out revision 1711.
>> mkdir -p gobj
>> gcc -c -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -freg-struct-return -fno-strength-
>> reduce -DWIN32 -DHAVE_PATHDEF -DFEAT_BIG -DWINVER=0x0400 -
>> D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0400 -DDYNAMIC_GETTEXT -DDYNAMIC_ICONV -DFEAT_MBYTE -
>> DFEAT_MBYTE_IME -DDYNAMIC_IME -DFEAT_CSCOPE -DFEAT_NETBEANS_INTG -
>> DFEAT_GUI_W32 -DFEAT_CLIPBOARD -march=i386 -Iproto -s -mno-cygwin
>> buffer.c -o gobj/buffer.o
>> gcc: The -mno-cygwin flag has been removed; use a mingw-targeted cross-
>> compiler.
>>
>> make: *** [gobj/buffer.o] Error 1
>>
>> Any idea?
>
> I think this tells you to use the MingW compiler instead of the Cygwin
> one. The MingW compiler is for building native MS-Windows apps, without
> the Cygwin runtime. I though the -mno-cygwin argument had the same
> intention. Perhaps they removed support for that to simplify
> maintenance of the compiler.
Yes, it has been removed - not just for simpler maintenance, but also
because it was impossible to make it work properly in certain edge
cases.
~Matt
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