Re: Documentation on -mno-cygwin Accuracy

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 04:08:21AM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 17:13 -0600, Quinn Wood wrote:
>> Thank you for the swift reply, and thanks for the information. This is
>> a tangential question, but are the MinGW files available for
>> integration with Cygwin suitable for this?
>
>I'm not certain that I understand your question.  There are several
>mingw-* packages which provide headers and libraries which are meant to
>be used in conjuction with mingw-gcc.  This is how Cygwin's setup.exe (a
>pure Win32 app, for obvious reasons) can be built on Cygwin, for
>example.

FWIW, I build setup.exe on linux with a carefully-constructed environment
which just uses your Cygwin cross-compiler but adds the MinGW bits while
removing the Cygwin bits.

cgf

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