From: Keith M. <kei...@us...> - 2013-05-20 08:51:10
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On 19 May 2013 23:37, Oscar Benjamin wrote: > > So my question is: Does anyone know if there ever were any versions of > mingw that accepted the '-mno-cygwin' option and were also capable of > linking against msvcr90.dll? > Any version which does accept -mno-cygwin should be capable of linking against MSVCR90.DLL, provided you have the appropriate import lib, and adjust the specs file accordingly; (certainly true for GCC-3.x onward, until the cygwin folks declared -mno-cygwin officially dead). However, such linking capability is not supported by default; *you* must tweak your MinGW configuration to support it. Or even better, can anyone say in which releases of mingw the > following occurred: > 1) The '-mno-cygwin' option was made a no-op. > MinGW has *never*, AFAIK, *required* -mno-cygwin; it has *always* been a no-op, (certainly throughout the ten or more years I've been using, and have been associated with MinGW; I have *never* used -mno-cygwin). 2) The '-mno-cygwin' option stopped being accepted. > You'll have to ask the cygwin folks; they are the architects of the -mno-cygwin madness, and it is only *their* native GCC which has ever implemented it as anything other than a no-op. I believe that they began the deprecation process during the transition from GCC-3.x to GCC-4.x, but I've no idea how far inertia carried support into 4.x. > 3) Support for msvcr90.dll was added. > I don't know which version of GCC was prevalent at the time, but the ChangeLog indicates that it first appeared in mingwrt-3.14, towards the end of 2007; (this may have been during the interregnum, when we lacked an active maintainer to bring us forward from GCC-3.x to GCC-4.x). -- Regards, Keith. |