On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 04:00:06PM -0400, Ralph Hempel wrote: > arren Young wrote: >>Ralph Hempel wrote: >>>what I think I hear you saying is that when -mno-cygwin is fully >>>deprecated I'll need to build a cross compiler for native Windows >>>executables >>Or, you could install MinGW. Cygwin and MinGW will coexist, side by >>side, without conflict, if you arrange it so only one is in the PATH at >>a time. It's not impossible to have them both in the PATH, but I've >>come across enough strange behavior that I don't do that anymore. > >I know I can install MinGW, but keeping track of their releases and >having to download custom versions of this and that to get all the >parts to play nicely together is such a huge PITA. > >The nice folks at Cygwin have spent a lot of time and mental energy >getting setup to work well (just read cygwin-apps if you don't believe >me), and now that -P is supported it's dead easy to set up from the >command line. > >But thanks for the reminder :-)
mingw will soon have their own nice installer too. But that's not really a topic for this mailing list of course. cgf -- 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/
