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Re: Using gcc 3.3.3


At 09:50 AM 3/14/2004, you wrote:
>Hi
>
>I have got Cygwin running on my windows XP pc, using gcc 3.3.1. I downloaded
>gcc 3.3.3 release, and managed to build it, however when I tried to compile
>a windows application using it it compiled ok but gave a linker error
>'couldn't find crt2.o'. It gave this error when I was trying to compile
>with -mno-cygwin, which worked with gcc 3.3.1. I found that this file was in
>c:/cygwin/lib/mingw, but passing an option on to the linker such
>as -Wl,"-Lc:/cygwin/lib/mingw" or other variations on this didn't work.
>However when I copied the crt2.o file to c:/cygwin/lib, it worked! But then
>I read that -mno-cygwin wasn't  included on gcc 3.3.3. So was this a fluke?
>Or is there a standard way to use gcc 3.3.3 on cygwin?
>
>Also if I used g++ 3.3.3 to compile but g++ 3.3.1 that came with cygwin to
>link, it also works fine! Is it then actually using the benefits of the more
>modern version?


The gcc compiler suite for Cygwin contains patches to include the 
'-mno-cygwin' switch.  Since gcc 3.3.3 isn't part of the Cygwin 
distribution yet, you would need to patch your local version if 
you want this functionality prior to it's inclusion in Cygwin.



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