From: tomas.fasth@twinspot.net (Tomas Fasth) Subject: Re: Problems with mingw32 GCC 2.8.0 !!! 31 Jan 1998 05:51:48 -0800 Message-ID: <34D3293B.7E1C65F2.cygnus.gnu-win32@twinspot.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: jeffdbREMOVETHIS@netzone.com Cc: Jan-Jaap van der Heijden , gnu-win32@cygnus.com Mikey wrote: > Well let's get cygnus to change to -windows, -dll that way > you could use I think in general single dash options are supposed to be followed by a single character indicating which option and eventually some more characters being the option's argument, possibly preceded by white space. In order to be more compliant to the command line option style in other GNU software, I suggest we change that to --windows, --dll, and --posix. Or similar. I would have expected though, the use of a more generic double dash option scheme already in place for such a widely ported tool as gcc. I mean, windows (mingw32) and it's dynamic link scheme is not the only one out there. Shouldn't this kind of stuff rather fall under the cross platform properties (and the usage of the corresponding set of options) of gcc? Tomas - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".