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 Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 13:12:10 +0100 Message-ID: <361-Thu05Jul2001131210+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> X-Mailer: emacs 20.7.1 (via feedmail 9-beta-7 I); VM 6.92 under Emacs 20.7.1 From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Moore, Paul" Cc: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: Can't run Mingw gcc from Cygwin In-Reply-To: <714DFA46B9BBD0119CD000805FC1F53B01B5AED2@ukrux002.rundc.uk.origin-it.com> References: <714DFA46B9BBD0119CD000805FC1F53B01B5AED2@ukrux002.rundc.uk.origin-it.com> On Thursday 5 Jul 01, Moore, Paul writes: > I'm trying to run the Mingw gcc compiler from within Cygwin. My reason is to > use Cygwin/bash to run configure, but to build the packages using Mingw, so > that they have no Cygwin dependency at runtime - yes, I know about > -mno-cygwin, and that is an option, I guess, but I'd prefer to use the Mingw > compiler if possible - not least as it builds executables which use MSVCRT > rather than CRTDLL. > > However, if I add my Mingw binaries directory to the front of PATH, via > export PATH=//c/Applications/Mingw/bin:$PATH FYI -- I know you used the /cygdrive/c/.../... form in a subsequent message, and is not related to your problem, but just for the record, you should not use the //c/.../... form any more. This is deprecated because of the confusion with share names, and will not work in the next release of Cygwin. Regards, David (Cygwin FAQ maintainer) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/