On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 11:16:54AM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 11:33 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >Here's my question, though: given the incompatibilities mentioned, would >> >a cygwin1.dll built with i686-w64-cygwin (mingw-w64) toolchain be 100% >> >compatible with current and past releases built with i686-pc-cygwin >> >(mingw.org) toolchain? If not, then we need both. >> >> Is someone talking about a i686-w64-cygwin compiler? I thought this was >> entirely mingw. > >You are correct; all these triplets are making my head spin. Let me >rephrase: > >Given the incompatibilities mentioned, would a cygwin1.dll built with >i686-w64-mingw32 (mingw-w64 32bit) toolchain be 100% compatible with >current and past releases built with i686-pc-mingw32 (mingw.org) >toolchain? If not, then we need both.
I suppose you could build cygwin with a mingw compiler but that's not how it's built now so I don't see why it makes a difference. cgf
