cygwin and mingw

[Carlo Florendo]

Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:

>On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 08:40:07AM +0800, Carlo Florendo wrote:
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>>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)?
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>FWIW, I recently tried this with perl (building a native-win32 perl
>using -mno-cygwin instead of the supported MinGW, Borland C or VC).
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>The two issues I ran into were:
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>    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".
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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.
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Whew!  So that means downloading a native mingw may still be useful.

Thanks a lot!

Best Regards,

Carlo

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Carlo Florendo
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