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RE: Eliminating -mno-cygwin from gcc?
- From: "Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)" <gsw at agere dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:46:28 -0500
- Subject: RE: Eliminating -mno-cygwin from gcc?
- References: <20070131131337.GA17256@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> When I was maintaining cygwin's gcc, I often thought about eliminating
> -mno-cygwin and just providing a pure mingw cross compiler in the
> distribution.
I completely agree. Anybody depending on -mno-cygwin can create
their own shell wrapper. I personally don't care so much about a
deprecation period, as long as it explodes noisily and points me
in the right direction three years from now when I try to run an
old build script that happens to use it.
Big projects really shouldn't be using -mno-cygwin, anyway--the
preferred way to do it is to install MinGW compilers and either
use MSYS or change your Cygwin path to put MinGW's tools first.
How complete of a cross chain were you thinking about supporting?
I only installed the compilers and my MinGW bin contains over 60
unique executables--that could mean a fair number of i686-mingw-*
programs created (consider GNAT for example).
gsw
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