Re: -mno-cygwin and c++ stl... progress?

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 03:27:35PM -0600, Mumit Khan wrote:
>On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>This one is the show stopper.
>>
>>Or, rather, it is the current stumbling block.  I'm willing to release
>>a libstdc++.a for mingw.  It will be trivial to do this now that we've
>>split out the include and lib directories for mingw.
>
>Hmmm ... this issue came up way back, and I remember suggesting that we
>consider using multilib facility in GCC build process to accomplish this.
>It's not too hard to get working, other than of course the fact that it 
>takes twice as long to build.  However, multilib-ing has one big con --
>not that many people understand how it works in gcc. Any other solution
>of trying to build two copies of libstdc++, with slightly different
>options, may not be clean. Also, you'll again run into the same problem
>with libstdc++-v3 needing exception handling code, and libgcc supplying
>it for the wrong runtime!

I was actually thinking of the pragmatic solution of checking in a
libstdc++.a file into the mingw repository and releasing that along with
the mingw stuff.  I assume that libstdc++.a would be produced by a true
mingw gcc.

cgf

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