From: H. P. A. <hp...@zy...> - 2002-12-16 20:12:39
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Jim wrote: > Psh - okay so I saw the .lcc makefile today - should look before I make > silly statements... > > cygwin gcc 3.2 definatly does not like -mno-cygwin - so that build will have > to run exclusively within the cygwin bash environment thingy... > > - Kinda pisses me off - people accuse windows of being bloated, virusware, > and what do they do? they add 15 more layers of junk on top of it, and call > it a good thing. Everything should boil down to the best possible usage of > the system, not 'lets force this round peg into this triangular hole'... But > then I guess that's why I'm lurking in this NASM group.... > Cygwin is a total hack. Its main virtue is to let Windows compile Unix-specific programs, and to give Windows something approximating a real scripting environment. This means Unix programs now can run on *all* mainstream platforms (MacOS is Unix for real since version X). -hpa |