Re: cygwin and mingw

[Carlo Florendo <list-subscriber at hq dot astra dot ph>]

Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 08:40:07AM +0800, Carlo Florendo wrote:
>  
>
> > I'd like to be able to build the cdrtools under mingw.  Is it possible 
> > for me to just change all references to  "gcc" to "gcc -mno-cygwin" and 
> > run make (assuming, of course that both the native cygwin and native 
> > mingw libraries exist)?
> >    
>
> FWIW, I recently tried this with perl (building a native-win32 perl
> using -mno-cygwin instead of the supported MinGW, Borland C or VC).
>
> The two issues I ran into were:
>
>    The makefile provided only worked with dmake, and I only had a
> non-cygwin version of dmake.  dmake calling cygwin's gcc resulted in
> different command line quoting/escaping behaviour than when calling
> MinGW's gcc.  See thread on the cygwin list: "cygwin programs called
> from non-cygwin programs mauling \" in args".
>
>  
Oh, so it wouldn't be that simple....


>    Preprocessor output used posix pathnames; this broke perl code
> finding the errno constants to build the Errno module.  I put in a
> cygpath hack, but it would be nice if there were a way to get gcc
> -mno-cygwin to use windows pathnames.
>
>  
Whew!  So that means downloading a native mingw may still be useful.

Thanks a lot!

Best Regards,

Carlo

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