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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 13:14:55 -0400
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Subject: Re: Does Cygwin's `-mno-cygwin' need Mingw?
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In-Reply-To: <20001016165111.4193.qmail@web117.yahoomail.com>; from earnie_boyd@yahoo.com on Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 09:51:11AM -0700

On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 09:51:11AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>--- Fergus Henderson <fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT oz DOT au> wrote:
>>Does the `-mno-cygwin' option to gcc work "out of the box" with Cygwin?
>
>As long as your code is ANSI compliant it will work.  The -mno-cygwin
>switch uses the crtdll library.  It is not setup to use msvcrt.  It
>will be planned to use the msvcrt library in the future.
>
>>In other words, does the Cygwin distribution include Mingw?  Does it
>>need to?
>>
>
>The -mno-cygwin switch of the Cygwin product is not considered MinGW by
>the MinGW development team.  MinGW has it's own set of GCC/binutils
>tools.  We are currently in the process of preparing a more upto date
>package.

This is a recent stance, though.  Mumit tried hard to make sure that the
mingw libraries and include files distributed by cygwin were the same as
the ones distributed in the mingw "stand-alone".

In theory, if we're using the same libraries and headers, we should be
producing the same code.

cgf

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