Pursuant to a discussion on the libtool list, I'm trying to get a feel
for how many cygwin users rely on the cygwin environment to drive the
*native* MinGW gcc compiler. That is, incantations like this:
1a)
cygwin$ some-src-pkg/configure \
--build=i686-pc-cygwin --host=mingw32 \
CC=/c/MinGW/bin/gcc.exe \
CXX=/c/MinGW/bin/g++.exe \
NM=/c/MinGW/bin/nm.exe \
DLLTOOL=/c/MinGW/bin/dlltool.exe \
OBJDUMP=/c/MinGW/bin/objdump.exe \
LD=/c/MinGW/bin/ld.exe
or possibly
1b)
cygwin$ export PATH=/c/MinGW/bin:$PATH
cygwin$ some-src-pkg/configure \
--build=i686-pc-cygwin --host=mingw32
Note that this is *DIFFERENT* than installing a true cygwin-hosted
mingw-target cross-compiler, and just doing
2)
cygwin$ some-src-pkg/configure \
--build=i686-pc-cygwin --host=i686-pc-mingw32
It is ALSO different than the (deprecated, unsupported,
go-away-don't-bother-us) incantation:
3)
cygwin$ some-src-pkg/configure \
--build=i686-pc-cygwin --host=i686-pc-mingw32 \
CFLAGS='-mno-cygwin'
I hope this is considered on-topic here, because I'm interested in the
uses of the cygwin environment itself. I don't want reports of why it
doesn't work, or how hard it is to get one of the incantations above to
work. I just want to get an idea of how many people are currently,
actually, successfully, doing something like 1a) or 1b) above.