[Mingw-users] Re: cygwin & MinGW

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 04:51:30PM -0700, Paul G. wrote:
>-mno-cygwin only seems to work for gcc applications Out Of the Box
>(OOB).  You can add C++ support within the Cygwin development
>environment with the appropriate, albeit additional, downloads; ie., of
>course, if you wish to facilitate C++ compiles/links using the Cygwin
>(part of standard Cygwin distro) -mno-cygwin switch.

This is no longer true with the experimental version of gcc-2 and gcc
3.2 that are available via setup.exe at http://cygwin.com/ .  Both versions
should be close to the same versions as supplied by mingw and the -mno-cygwin
switch should provide the functional equivalent of a mingw compiler.  Both
versions should deal well with C++ out-of-the-box.

Unfortunately, gcc 3.2 relies on some header file changes in cygwin and I
am resolutely trying to get a new release of the cygwin DLL out so that
I can then switch both versions of gcc out of experimental status.  The
problems I'm having with cygwin are of the BSOD variety, so I don't know
when the new release will be.

Sorry if this is off-topic for the mingw list.  I'm just responding to
set the record straight.

cgf

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