Re: Compiling purely native (mingw) win32 apps under cygwin...

[Jonathan Arnold <jdarnold at buddydog dot org>]

Jani Tiainen wrote:
> Larry Hall kirjoitti:
>
> > At 05:42 AM 3/27/2005, you wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all!
> > >
> > > I was wondering what I have to do to get purely native win32 app to 
> > > build under cygwin. I know that -mnocygwin directive drops out 
> > > dependency to cygwin1.dll, but how about other libraries?
> > >
> > > How I can make a separate sandbox for my purposes that in any case 
> > > even two versions of libs exists cygwin uses only my own libs..?
> >
> > If you don't want or need the Cygwin layer, you can always just download,
> > install, and use the MinGW version of gcc/g++ (see www.mingw.org).  The
> > '-mno-cygwin' flag to the Cygwin version of gcc/g++ is meant to be a 
> > convenient option to get the same results as the MinGW version without
> > installing a copy.  Still, if MinGW is what you want and all you ever 
> > want,
> > you're better off using it that the Cygwin switch.
> >
> > If you're ever unsure about which DLLs got linked into your 
> > executable/DLL,
> > simply run 'cygcheck <foo>', where <foo> is the executable/DLL in 
> > question.
> > It will list all the implicitly loaded DLL dependencies.  If there are 
> > any
> > Cygwin dependencies, you'll see them.
>
>
> Well I need Cygwin for build environment since mingw/msys package 
> doesn't work well with automake/autoconf.
>
> But still is there some special environment vars (like PKG_CONFIG_PATH) 
> that I have to set to make things sure..?
>
> And of course I use Cygwin for ssh + xorg connectivity to my Linux 
> server...

Well, according to the MinGW web site, it's very easy to work with both.  Just
make sure the MinGW /bin is before the Cygwin /bin. See the FAQ entry:

http://www.mingw.org/mingwfaq.shtml#faq-usingwithcygwin

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