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Re: Up-to-date info on '-mno-cygwin' vs. Mingw32
- To: Jesper Eskilson <jojo at virtutech dot se>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: Up-to-date info on '-mno-cygwin' vs. Mingw32
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 09:34:52 -0400
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-mno-cygwin howto seems a little bit out-of-date.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
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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