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Re: GCC4 status.
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> AFAIK, a normal Cygwin installation doesn't use the w32api header files
> unless you're building a hybrid Cygwin/Windows program. That is a
> pretty sad beast but I guess people really do use that. I guess we
> can't think about removing -mno-win32. A limited number of libraries
> are used so it wouldn't make sense to move them around.
Some multimedia packages use mmsystem.h/libwinmm for low-level functions
such as optical disc access. OTOH I would be thrilled if winsock.h and
friends (which conflict with cygwin's sys/socket.h) would be out of the
default search path.
> Two versions? Whuh, Huh? When is that ever a good idea?
>
> What I would like to see is all of the Windows stuff isolated as much as
> possible from the Cygwin. Possibly all of the windows-only stuff could
> either install in a windows hierarchy or a mingw hierarchy and symlinks
> into /usr/include and (sparingly) /usr/lib could be made.
That may work, but we would have to decide very carefully what goes into
/usr and what not.
Yaakov
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