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Re: Up-to-date info on '-mno-cygwin' vs. Mingw32
- To: "David Carter" <david at carter dot net>
- Subject: Re: Up-to-date info on '-mno-cygwin' vs. Mingw32
- From: Jesper Eskilson <jojo at virtutech dot se>
- Date: 31 Aug 2001 16:34:43 +0200
- Cc: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Organization: Virtutech AB
- References: <000501c13210$54396e40$6401a8c0@atl.mediaone.net>
"David Carter" <david@carter.net> writes:
> While you could use the mingw compiler & linker with cygwin, as
> recommended by some on the web, by placing them ahead of the cygwin
> tools in your path, you are almost certain to run into issues with
> dos/windows file paths vs. unix-style paths.
Since our build-environment is already adapted to use other non-cygwin
compilers (such as Visual C++ and Intel C), this is not a real
problem. We wrap all non-cygwin programs in a script which does all
the conversions for us.
/Jesper
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