Re: [Mingw-users] Newbe-ish questions on Mingw vs cygwin

[Dmitry B. <db...@ma...>]

Mumit Khan <khan@NanoTech.Wisc.EDU> writes:

> > BTW, why not to put -fvtable-thunks option into gcc's "specs" file together
> > with other mno-cygwin defaults?
> 
> Because that would break binary compatibility with all the other C++
> libraries out there.

Are all C++ libraries anyway recompiled for mingw with -mno-cygwin option
and placed to /lib/mingw, aren't they? If so, why we would have any
compatibility problems? 

Hope to hear from you soon,
Dmitry