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Re: Cygwin compiler and linker options
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 04:00:06PM -0400, Ralph Hempel wrote:
> arren Young wrote:
>>Ralph Hempel wrote:
>>>what I think I hear you saying is that when -mno-cygwin is fully
>>>deprecated I'll need to build a cross compiler for native Windows
>>>executables
>>Or, you could install MinGW. Cygwin and MinGW will coexist, side by
>>side, without conflict, if you arrange it so only one is in the PATH at
>>a time. It's not impossible to have them both in the PATH, but I've
>>come across enough strange behavior that I don't do that anymore.
>
>I know I can install MinGW, but keeping track of their releases and
>having to download custom versions of this and that to get all the
>parts to play nicely together is such a huge PITA.
>
>The nice folks at Cygwin have spent a lot of time and mental energy
>getting setup to work well (just read cygwin-apps if you don't believe
>me), and now that -P is supported it's dead easy to set up from the
>command line.
>
>But thanks for the reminder :-)
mingw will soon have their own nice installer too. But that's not
really a topic for this mailing list of course.
cgf
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