Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <19990901015805.26950.rocketmail@web125.yahoomail.com> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 18:58:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com Subject: Re: (Another) newbie problem To: Mumit Khan , JRSON@NetZero.Net Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Mumit Khan wrote: > Actually, there are other problems with this setup besides the > quoting issue -- the pathnames have to specially handled by > the driver before passing it on for example. UWIN folks do > this to drive MSVC and there's quite a bit of work to be done > (and I can still break it at will). If you can live with a > little slowdown due to Cygwin overhead, why not just use a > Cygwin hosted Mingw targeted toolchain (just install it somewhere > else, and use PATH to switch to it)? As you can probably guess > already, I have just the setup. In fact, I'm contemplating > packaging it up (which takes a finite block of my time, hence > the contemplation ;-) and putting it up for ftp. I don't have to change the PATH with my setup, I just do an effective change root command. I use all cygwin tools with the mingw32 compiler/binutils set and giving the appropriate paths to the appropriate environment variables. I have never ever, as I'm sure that Mumit hasn't either, had a conflict of headers and libraries. Keep the two sets separated in there own world and you won't have a problem. BTW: This setup allows me to install a snapshot for testing without disturbing what I know already works. === Earnie Boyd Newbies, please visit (If you respond to the list, then please don't cc me) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com