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

[Chris Faylor]

On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 10:19:19AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>--- Cliff Hones <cliff@aonix.co.uk> wrote:
>> 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?
>>
>
>If there isn't one already, are you willing to be the package
>maintainer?

There is no maintainer, currently.

>>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?
>>
>
>It appears that the msvcrt library initialization files aren't setup
>for some reason.  As an alternative you could use the MinGW
>distribution, see http://www.mingw.org for more information.

I just used whatever Mumit provided back in April.  As always, if someone
wants to maintain the mingw part of things, please contact me.

cgf

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