On 7 July 2010 22:03, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 09:44:14PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: >>On 7 July 2010 18:27, NightStrike wrote: >>>> 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 >>> >>> How's it built now? >> >>With Cygwin gcc and the -mno-cygwin option, using mingw.org's w32api. > > It doesn't use -mno-cygwin. How could it? The build uses the latest > gcc 4 which doesn't have that option.
You're right of course. Is -nostdlib what ensures that the Cygwin DLL doesn't end up depending on itself, or is that a ridiculous notion in the first place? Andy
