Two queries - flex, and no-cygwin linking with msvcrt.dll

[Matthew Smith]

You know, this brings up an interesting point that I was thinking about the
other day.  Would there be any benefits from recompiling all the cygwin
packages with the newest version of cygwin? You wouldn't think so, if the
gcc distribution is unchanging, but if this is any indication, it would seem
so.  Food for thought.

cheers,
-Matt Smith


> I have two unconnected queries:
>
> The version of flex currently distributed with Cygwin
> identifies itself as Cygnus version 2.5-cygwin-990830,
> but appears to have been built from sources pre-dating
> the current flex source which is version 2.5.4a, dated
> September 1996.  When I try to use flex during a build
> of bochs (the x86 simulator) I have problems with the
> Cygwin version, while if I rebuild flex (under Cygwin)
> from the 2.5.4a sources all is well.  Is there any
> reason why the Cygwin binary version is out of date?
>
> Is it possible to link with msvcrt.dll (rather than
> crtsdll.dll) when using -mno-cygwin?  I see there is
> a libmsvcrt.a included in the cygwin mingw distribution,
> but the crt1.o startup requires crtdll.dll, and I
> am wary of linking an application including parts from
> both.  The gcc-2.95.2-mingw-extra distibution only
> includes the crtdll.dll version, and the mingw runtime
> source distribution (source-2000-03-27.zip) seems to only
> build the crtdll flavour for cygwin.  Is there a good
> reason for this, or could the mingw runtime makefile be
> extended in the 'obvious' way to build a msvcrt version?
>
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> Cliff Hones
> Aonix Europe Ltd.
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