X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4741F660.8050202@wbemsolutions.com> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:47:28 -0500 From: Jim Marshall User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Library issues with GCC - libuser32 References: <1cf9399b0711191222g143869efvdc3e263e9ced29ca@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1cf9399b0711191222g143869efvdc3e263e9ced29ca@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Jeff Bader wrote: > Using GCC: For ld to find "-luser32", I downloaded a version of w32api > and then copied the libuser32 file into the main cygwin library. Why > was this necessary to use GCC? Why could I not just install the devel > package and be done with it? > > Thank you, > > Jeff > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Because the devel package in Cygwin is for making CYGWIN apps, not Windows apps. To make Windows apps you need to install the mingw tools and then use the "-mno-cygwin" option so the system knows to use the mingw tools to build a Windows program. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/