> cgf quoted and wrote: > > >>The FAQ and the CygWin mailing list indicated that there might be some > > >>advantage to renaming /usr/lib/libm.a to /usr/lib/libm.a.16bit but that > > >>had no effect. > > > > > >That looks like bogus information. Rename it back to its correct name. > > > > It is surely bogus information. I can't find anything in the FAQ which > > suggests this. If it really is there somewhere, I'd appreciate a pointer > > so that it can be fixed. > > It isn't in the FAQ. It was in the following misguided posting > from Martin Gainty: > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-04/msg01587.html > > Maybe it is time to add to the FAQ (or emphasize, if I've missed it) > that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is *absolutely nothing* to do with 16-bit code or > libraries. [To anyone curious, I believe it indicates that WinMain is a > function which takes a parameter list of exactly 16 bytes, and pops them > off the stack before returning to the caller - ie it follows the > Pascal/stdcall/winapi convention.] > > -- Cliff
I changed it back. Per other comments, I can certainly get a linked output file by using the --shared switch, but that doesn't generate a windows executable file. I think from context that it's probably generating a library image instead. So, I'm still not sure what's going on. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
