Re: Support for MinGW compilers in the Cygwin environment

2013-10-21 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Tuesday 2013-10-22 03:43, Daniel Richard G. wrote: >On Mon, 2013 Oct 21 18:13+0800, JonY wrote: > >In the same way that, on a Solaris machine I work with here, I can get > >$ ./config.guess >i386-pc-solaris2.10 >$ CC="cc -xarch=generic64" ./config.guess >x86_64-pc-solaris2.10

Re: Support for MinGW compilers in the Cygwin environment

2013-10-21 Thread Daniel Richard G.
On Mon, 2013 Oct 21 18:13+0800, JonY wrote: > > Do not confuse Cygwin and MSYS, they are not interchangeable. I know about MSYS; it's a good development environment, but not a complete system, and a lot less convenient to install. I'm concerned with using MinGW-GCC as shipped by Cygwin (not by the

Re: Support for MinGW compilers in the Cygwin environment

2013-10-21 Thread Kai Tietz
Hello, Once again ... We already discussed this issue some time ago directly, Earnie. And just by repeating and spreading this nonsense over and over again, it doesn't make it right. First I have to state that therr is (and was) no target using *mingw64* as host-part triplet. What should

Re: Support for MinGW compilers in the Cygwin environment

2013-10-21 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 8:01 AM, Earnie Boyd wrote: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 6:13 AM, JonY wrote: >> >> Moreover, *-*-mingw64 does not exist save for a short experimentation >> period. It should really be removed. The __MINGW64__ macro on the other >> hand is unrelated to any of this. >> > > No,

Re: Support for MinGW compilers in the Cygwin environment

2013-10-21 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 6:13 AM, JonY wrote: > > Moreover, *-*-mingw64 does not exist save for a short experimentation > period. It should really be removed. The __MINGW64__ macro on the other > hand is unrelated to any of this. > No, it exists because I created it. It should not be removed. --

Re: Support for MinGW compilers in the Cygwin environment

2013-10-21 Thread JonY
On 10/21/2013 09:50, Daniel Richard G. wrote: > Hello, > > Among the many packages Cygwin provides are MinGW builds of GCC and the > associated libraries and tools, making this a convenient alternative to > MSYS and the packages provided directly by the MinGW project. > > When one is using the Mi