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Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 00:04:01 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: gcc -mno-cygwin STL support for setup.exe?
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On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 03:57:24PM +1100, Danny Smith wrote:
>For what its worth, 3.1 libsupc++.a  and libstdc++.a build natively with
>mingw. (libsupc++.a contains the eh and new/delete stuff that is currently
>in libgcc.a for mingw). Locale class support is missing (as it is with
>cygwin/newlib), but C-locale works for me. Wide char support is missing,
>because of deficiencies in C-runtime. If you want wide char with
>-mno-cygwin, you'll need an auxiliary library -- like mingw's [incomplete]
>libisocext.a -- to supply  C wide char support.  Iostreams work for <char>.
> In 3.1 -mno-cygwin needs the mingw32/bits headers.  Also, there may be
>differences in the way the C_runtime functions are promoted into namespace
>std. 

Hmm.  I haven't been able to build libstdc++ v3 for cygwin for a while.  Maybe
it's just a cross build error.

cgf