Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <20001009171919.13486.qmail@web120.yahoomail.com> Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 10:19:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Earnie Boyd Subject: Re: Two queries - flex, and no-cygwin linking with msvcrt.dll To: Cliff Hones , cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Cc: cliff@aonix.co.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Cliff Hones wrote: > I have two unconnected queries: > > The version of flex currently distributed with Cygwin > identifies itself as Cygnus version 2.5-cygwin-990830, > but appears to have been built from sources pre-dating > the current flex source which is version 2.5.4a, dated > September 1996. When I try to use flex during a build > of bochs (the x86 simulator) I have problems with the > Cygwin version, while if I rebuild flex (under Cygwin) > from the 2.5.4a sources all is well. Is there any > reason why the Cygwin binary version is out of date? > If there isn't one already, are you willing to be the package maintainer? > Is it possible to link with msvcrt.dll (rather than > crtsdll.dll) when using -mno-cygwin? I see there is > a libmsvcrt.a included in the cygwin mingw distribution, > but the crt1.o startup requires crtdll.dll, and I > am wary of linking an application including parts from > both. The gcc-2.95.2-mingw-extra distibution only > includes the crtdll.dll version, and the mingw runtime > source distribution (source-2000-03-27.zip) seems to only > build the crtdll flavour for cygwin. Is there a good > reason for this, or could the mingw runtime makefile be > extended in the 'obvious' way to build a msvcrt version? > It appears that the msvcrt library initialization files aren't setup for some reason. As an alternative you could use the MinGW distribution, see http://www.mingw.org for more information. Cheers, ===== Earnie Boyd mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com --- --- --- Cygwin: POSIX on Windows --- --- Minimalist GNU for Windows --- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - 35mm Quality Prints, Now Get 15 Free! http://photos.yahoo.com/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com