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Re: -mno-cygwin flag
- From: Brian Ford <ford at vss dot fsi dot com>
- To: Leonard Williams <arckon at dejazzd dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 20:33:16 -0500 (CDT)
- Subject: Re: -mno-cygwin flag
- References: <003d01c4234b$16ad6c00$2783d842@dejazzd.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Leonard Williams wrote:
> I could not find relevant answers to this question in the archives.
Look in the archives for mingw-users at lists.sourceforge.net via
www.mingw.org, and you might have better luck.
> Do I understand correctly that using this flag ( -mno-cygwin)
> in compiling a program for Windows will make it independent of the
> cygwin1.dll?
Yes, but...
> How do I use this?
The package you are compiling must have already been ported to mingw, or
you must do it yourself.
> The level of compiling I do is to unpack (tar xvzf) source code and use
> "make" to compile the program.
Then it will only work for the limited subset of packages discussed above.
> Do I need to add some more stuff to my Cygwin program files?
I don't know what you are asking here.
BTW, futher discussion of this topic is probably considered off-topic for
this list. Please use the mingw-users list.
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