RE: Using gcc 3.3.3

["Ben Taylor" <benjtaylor at hotpop dot com>]

How do I apply patches to my existing Cygwin installation?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Hall [mailto:cygwin-lh@cygwin.com]
> Sent: 14 March 2004 18:59
> To: Ben Taylor; cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Using gcc 3.3.3
> 
> 
> At 09:50 AM 3/14/2004, you wrote:
> >Hi
> >
> >I have got Cygwin running on my windows XP pc, using gcc 3.3.1. 
> I downloaded
> >gcc 3.3.3 release, and managed to build it, however when I tried 
> to compile
> >a windows application using it it compiled ok but gave a linker error
> >'couldn't find crt2.o'. It gave this error when I was trying to compile
> >with -mno-cygwin, which worked with gcc 3.3.1. I found that this 
> file was in
> >c:/cygwin/lib/mingw, but passing an option on to the linker such
> >as -Wl,"-Lc:/cygwin/lib/mingw" or other variations on this didn't work.
> >However when I copied the crt2.o file to c:/cygwin/lib, it 
> worked! But then
> >I read that -mno-cygwin wasn't  included on gcc 3.3.3. So was 
> this a fluke?
> >Or is there a standard way to use gcc 3.3.3 on cygwin?
> >
> >Also if I used g++ 3.3.3 to compile but g++ 3.3.1 that came with 
> cygwin to
> >link, it also works fine! Is it then actually using the benefits 
> of the more
> >modern version?
> 
> 
> The gcc compiler suite for Cygwin contains patches to include the 
> '-mno-cygwin' switch.  Since gcc 3.3.3 isn't part of the Cygwin 
> distribution yet, you would need to patch your local version if 
> you want this functionality prior to it's inclusion in Cygwin.
> 
> 
> 
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