Re: [Dev-C++] How: cygwin-gcc as compiler for Dev-C++?

[Hongli L. <h....@ch...>]

A. Klingenstein wrote:

>I want to write a program which has to run under *nix and win32. It's network related daemon which
>uses socket.h and pthreads, and Dev-C++ seems to be the best IDE for gcc on win32
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>I tried to compile the win32 commandline project template with cygwin by choosing
>"use cygwin instead of the mingw compiler" and put my d:\lang\cygwin\bin" into
>Directories/Binaries. I even removed the mingw binary-directory from there
>Whatever I do, Dev-C++ still uses either mingw compiler or no compiler at all.
>
>So how do I get Dev-C++ to use cygwin? Or if this is not possible, is there another
>IDE which can use cygwin?
>Mingw is not an option since it's too win32-centric for this project (winsock2 is just
>not available on Linux)
>
>Alex
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Open bash and do make -f Makefile.win
It will automatically compile using Cygwin's GCC.