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Re: port existing x windows application to win32
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 17:13:36 -0500
- Subject: Re: port existing x windows application to win32
- References: <336E93A5D77EC246881C518F41A47CCA038FCE16@EXCHANGE1.atl.air2web.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 04:59:00PM -0500, Richard Campbell wrote:
>>Oh, please don't. This is a simple concept. There is nothing
>>complicated here.
>>
>If you build your program using Cygwin's gcc then your program is
>GPLed regardless of whether it is using X11 libraries.
>
>-m-no-cygwin?
In this context, -mno-cygwin programs really are not able to use the X11
libraries so it wouldn't work.
The use of "-mno-cygwin" produces non-cygwin binaries which make the
discussion of cygwin licensing unnecessary.
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