On 03/25/2015 01:05 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: > On 03/23/2015 03:25 PM, Eric Blake wrote: >> On 03/22/2015 07:06 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: >>> I've been using the corutils port for windows for some time, but it is >>> apparently not being updated and is stuck at version 5.3... >>> >>> Does anyone know if there is an update available somewhere? >> >> Look at cygwin.com, which is much more up-to-date. > > Hi Eric, > > I've not been using cygwin for building for a while, but wouldn't > it be possible to build statically linked binaries, maybe together > with the '-mno-cygwin' option?
-mno-cygwin is obsolete (it was an old way to attempt to build a mingw binary without using a cross-compiler); these days, cygwin ships with a proper cross-compiler for directly building mingw apps. But yes, it is possible to build pure mingw apps using the cygwin environment; and in fact, the MSYS project ships such binaries. But it all boils down to what you want - if you want an entire ecosystem of ported applications, use cygwin (all pre-compiled, but those binaries all depend on cygwin1.dll); if you want native applications statically linked, use mingw binaries (easiest when using the pre-compiled binaries from the MSYS distribution, but fewer applications available). -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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