[Techtalk] Solved (most probably) issue with Cygwin

[Rasjid Wilcox]

On Saturday 17 January 2004 05:07, =F1=D2=CF=D3=CC=C1=D7 =E6=C5=C4=C5=D7=C9=
=DE wrote:
> Hello people here,
>
> if someone else had the problem and is interested: to build anything under
> cygwin, you must have w32api package installed... Just found out. Will try
> on Monday.

I don't think this is quite true.  Many unix programs compile 'out of the b=
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on Cygwin, and since none of them make Windows API calls, I don't think the=
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would require the w32api package.  They will, however, require the=20
cygwin1.dll to run.

However, it is certainly true that to make a native windows executable you=
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need the w32api package.  You also need to pass the -mno-cygwin flag to gcc=
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See http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC97

Also see http://www.mingw.org/index.shtml for a similar project that provid=
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gcc for windows.

Cheers,

Rasjid.

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Rasjid Wilcox
Canberra, Australia (UTC +11 hrs)
http://www.openminddev.net