On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Szakáts Viktor wrote:

Hi Viktor,

> There is no such option in any of the MinGW versions (3.4.2,
> 3.4.5, 4.1.2, 4.3.1) I have installed (on Windows). [ Well,
> 4.3.1 has -mcygwin in its help somewhere, but both -mcygwin,
> and -mno-cygwin are completely ignored. ]

Try:
   gcc --target-help

AFAIR this option have been existing in all of the above MinGW
versions for very long time.

> I recall adding this in those times when the only way to
> create a 'mingw32' build, was through a Cygwin installation
> and this switch.

In general it's for all MinGW installations which have CYGWIN
interface enabled by default and we had -mno-cygwin to ignore
such default settings.

> Do you mean this is needed for the Linux MingW cross-compiler
> environment, still? If that's the case, shouldn't we add this
> command line option in the starter .sh files?

It does not depend on OS but on default compiler switches which
can be changed/customized in all installations. If you think it's
very seldom situation then we can leave it as is.

best regards,
Przemek
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