Re: PING: Deprecation of -mno-cygwin.

[Steve Thompson <smt at vgersoft dot com>]

On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Dave Korn wrote:

>  It's a bit of a kludge compared to having a real honest-to-god
> cross-compiler.  It's never worked entirely right in terms of keeping cygwin
> and mingw headers and libs completely separate.  A full-blown mingw
> cross-compiler won't cost that much in terms of disk space and the reliability
> and correctness improvements will be worth it.

That's very interesting. I've been using -mno-cygwin for several years, 
having done many many thousands of compiles and links using it, and I have 
never had a problem with either headers or libraries! Is there a 
recommended alternative?

Steve

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