gcc FAQ entries (was Re: [HEADSUP] Maintainers, please switch to Cygwin 1.7)

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

Hi Dave,

On Feb 10 16:18, Dave Korn wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> > 
> > 
> > Given that 1.7 is due really soon now (before summer), I'm wondering if
> > not all maintainers should switch to Cygwin 1.7 now and build packages
> > for 1.7 only from now on.
> 
>   I'm going to do the final experimental release of gcc4 with DLLs on 1.5, to
> leave the legacy users with a decent compiler to make use of, and all forward
> releases I'll expect to be 1.7 only.

can you please have a look into the FAQ in the Cygwin sources, file
faq-programming.xml?  The question "How do I compile a Win32 executable
that doesn't use Cygwin?" needs a revamp for Cygwin 1.7 but I don't know
the correct answer to this question.  At one point we will get a mingw
cross compiler, right?  wrong?  Can you suggest a new answer for this
FA question?

There's also the weird Q "How can I build a relocatable dll?"  Is that
something we should keep in at all?  If so, I assume that the described
way to do that is not exactly state of the art...


Thanks,
Corinna


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