Up-to-date info on '-mno-cygwin' vs. Mingw32

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

At 07:24 AM 8/30/2001, Jesper Eskilson wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I'm trying to get my hands on some up-to-date info on what the
>difference (if any) is between building binaries using Cygwin's gcc
>with the -mno-cygwin flag and using the Mingw32 suite. Mumit Khans
>-mno-cygwin howto seems a little bit out-of-date.
>
>/Jesper
>-- 


The difference is in the build environment, not the result.  If you 
like using Cygwin based tools (make, grep, sed, etc), use Cygwin's gcc
and -mno-cygwin to target Win32 without cygwin1.dll.  Otherwise, use 
the Mingw toolset.


Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
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