On 08/03/09 03:49, Matt Wozniski wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
[...]
>> The _option_ to compile native-Windows programs
>> using Cygwin gcc _is_ a useful thing, I can't imagine on what grounds
>> someone would think the opposite.
> I never said it wasn't useful, just that it has never worked properly
> and has no significant advantages over simply compiling with mingw.
> Compiling native windows programs with Debian's gcc would also be
> useful, but you're not likely to find a great deal of support for adding
> a -mno-debian switch to Debian's gcc for that purpose.
>
> ~Matt
I'm not asking that much. Debian usually doesn't run under Windows,
after all. Cygwin, OTOH, does, which makes it more obvious why it would
be useful to use it as a true Unix-like environment, with all the power
that that implies, to compile true Windows applications, even if it must
then be understood that such "true" Windows applications won't run in
the environment where they were compiled.
I never used MinGW (except insofar as the -mno-cygwin compiler is a
MinGW-for-Cygwin compiler) but from what I heard when I still had
Windows it didn't sound as convincing as Cygwin.
Best regards,
Tony.
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