John Heenan wrote:
It would be nice if we could get rid of cygwin altogether, however
there are known issues using the cygwin free MinGW/MSYS tools with
regard to cross compilers, such as collect2 for the compiler and
readline for gdb. However codesourcery.com have overcome these
problems for its GNU ARM distribution. Apparently they get paid by ARM
to maintain and update the distribution. There is a good chance their
gdb for ARM will work in Dev-C++ and possibly Eclipse.
You can't get rid of Cygwin, so forget it. We used to build with Cygwin
and MinGW. The MinGW versions ran faster, but had many many problems.
Curing those is a *major* project, as the MinGW folk have found. The CCE
folk also seem to have figured this out, as CCE using Cygwin too.
Just live with Cygwin. It works well.
Regards,
Steve
