Re: GCC: problem with library search path when targeting mingw

2006-08-15 Thread Damien Fouilleul
I'm not sure that I agree with your assements, /usr/lib as always been available (at least displayed) as a default search path in 'print-search-dirs' even when using the -mno-cygwin switch, but for some reason, has always been ignored when linking for MinGW. I think the problem has to do with

Re: problem with library search path when targeting mingw

2006-08-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 06:10:36PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > Thanks for the report. This has been mentioned before, it's a problem in >gcc's 'specs', which are command-line pattern matching strings (more-or-less) >used by the gcc compiler driver to select the right options for the >sub-programs t

RE: problem with library search path when targeting mingw

2006-08-14 Thread Dave Korn
On 14 August 2006 17:51, Damien Fouilleul wrote: > I'm a big fan of cygwin and I use it a lot to compile mingw apps, > however with the latest mingw-runtime, I'm having trouble running > configure scripts successfully as test such 'dlopen() in -ldl', which > used to fail for mingw target (as expec

GCC: problem with library search path when targeting mingw

2006-08-14 Thread Damien Fouilleul
hello, I'm a big fan of cygwin and I use it a lot to compile mingw apps, however with the latest mingw-runtime, I'm having trouble running configure scripts successfully as test such 'dlopen() in -ldl', which used to fail for mingw target (as expected) now succeeds. This causes havoc in compilati