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Re: complete newbie Q


Weiqi Gao wrote:
> On 11/29/05, rosty <dima.hristov@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>Is it possible to compile under a cygwin a native windows application that
>>will run without cygwin installed?
> 
> 
> Yes.
> 
> 
>> For example, can a take a unix source,
>>compile and run it under cygwin, then go to another win32 machine that has
>>not cygwin installed, and run it there?
> 
> 
> No.
> 
Unless you can accept -mno-cygwin as a solution.  All this, and maybe
even the nit-picking semantics, should be covered in the FAQ.

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