Re: [Mingw-users] ANN: MinGW GCC 4.1.2 binaries installerfor Windows

[Charles W. <cwi...@us...>]

Brian Dessent wrote:

> Thus it seems like the best way to go would be to add a suitable -m
> option to gcc, which would amount to additions to the specs file to
> recognise the -m flag and select the right -lmsvcr* option.  Also, we'd
> need to find out what other DLLs/libraries in the mingw-runtime or gcc
> startup objects (etc) have a hardcoded dependance on msvcrt and offer
> versions of these objects compiled for each one of the runtimes.

Also, if there were an -m flag like this, it should probably also set 
the WINVER variable appropriately.  Not that I have any idea how to code 
this, as it probably requires modifications to the spec file(s) and the 
gcc/g++/other-front-end command-line option parsing code...

-- 
Chuck

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