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Subject: Re: Eliminating -mno-cygwin from gcc?
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On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 05:36:17PM +1300, Danny Smith wrote:
>cgf wrote
>> 
>> How about if we eliminate -mno-cygwin from future releases and either
>> provide our own mingw cross-tools or wrap the offerings from 
>> mingw.org?
>
>
>I would miss -mno-cygwin.  Gcc -mno-cygwin suppports symlinks, mingw
>doesn't.
>
>--host=i686-pc-cygwin --target=i686-pc-cygwin would be a lovely
>replacement,
> so I wouldn't miss it for long. 

Yes, I think we've concluded that we can't just wrap the MinGW version
of gcc.  It has to be a real cross-compiler.

cgf

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