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Re: Building for nocygwin
On Apr 23 15:56, Michel Bardiaux wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > That is the "general solution". The error message was appropriate and gave a clue. Beyond that
> > you'll need to communicate a patch to the maintainers of the package that is still using -mno-cygwin.
>
> Let me rephrase.
>
> gcc-3 -mno-cygwin -o foo.exe foo.c
>
> under cygwin, works to create a windows executable that does not reference the cygwin dlls. (provided of course that foo.c does not call any APIs that can only be provided by cygwin, like fork). That *was* a general solution.
As Earnie wrote, now you should use the appropriate mingw32 or mingw64
cross compiler, both of which are available as part of the Cygwin distro.
This *is* the general solution.
Corinna
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