Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] Please not --win32!

[Christopher F. <me...@cg...>]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 02:41:55PM +1200, Danny Smith wrote:
>> >The version of GNU make that is currently included in MSYS (our
>> >POSIX-like environment and shell) does have a local patch to add a
>> >--win32 option. Fortunately, the option is already scheduled to be
>> >removed in the next MSYS release.
>> 
>> FWIW, it's been gone from the Cygwin (excuse the expression) 
>> version for
>> a while now, partly because Richard asked me to do this a while ago.
>
>Chris, would you have any objections to deprecating -mwin32 gcc flag  in favour of
>-mwindows32? 
>Although this flag is a valid for mingw32, it only does anything extra (defines _WIN32 et
>al)  on cygwin.
>
>If you have no objections I'll prepare the gcc patch for gcc-4.4

Sorry for the delayed response.  I have no objection at all.

cgf