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Re: CYGWIN1.DLL
OK, I meant that the difference between Mingw & regular Cygwin is that
Mingw makes a simpler install for newbies, while using cygwin.dll, etc.
allows you to make use of all the other functionality of cygwin (bash,
command line utils, etc.). It's a tradeoff of what your intended target
is.
Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 10:40:57AM -0400, James E. LaBarre wrote:
> >Probably to simplify installations for end users that don't have
> >cygwin. That said, I'd expect the -mingw method would *be* the simplest
> >for end users; if they specifically need cygwin functionality, then
> >including more of cygwin would be the way to go (having the added
> >benefit of being upgradable as new cygwin builds come out).
>
> Interesting speculation, but you really can't pick and choose pieces
> of cygwin when linking with -mno-cygwin. It's an all or nothing thing.
> Either use -mno-cygwin or don't. You can't do things like "Hmm. I
> don't want cygwin's path code but I do like fork, so I'll just load
> the fork part."
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