[Mingw-w64-public] Confusion as to how mingw works

2013-07-09 Thread Baruch Burstein
My understanding was always that mingw, as opposed to Cygwin, didn't supply a CRT, but instead used the Windows CRT. I never gave this a second thought until recently, and am now very confused. Static libraries compiled with the VS compiler (I think toolchain is the correct term?) cannot be used

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Confusion as to how mingw works

2013-07-09 Thread JonY
On 7/9/2013 20:42, Baruch Burstein wrote: My understanding was always that mingw, as opposed to Cygwin, didn't supply a CRT, but instead used the Windows CRT. I never gave this a second thought until recently, and am now very confused. Partially correct, mingw does have a CRT for supplementing

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Confusion as to how mingw works

2013-07-09 Thread Baruch Burstein
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 3:56 PM, JonY jo...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: On 7/9/2013 20:42, Baruch Burstein wrote: Static libraries compiled with the VS compiler (I think toolchain is the correct term?) cannot be used with mingw compiler as far as I know. So when I compile with mingw and

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Confusion as to how mingw works

2013-07-09 Thread JonY
On 7/9/2013 21:40, Baruch Burstein wrote: On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 3:56 PM, JonY jo...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: On 7/9/2013 20:42, Baruch Burstein wrote: Static libraries compiled with the VS compiler (I think toolchain is the correct term?) cannot be used with mingw compiler as far as I