Re: [Mingw-users] problems with -mno-cygwin

[Earnie B. <ear...@ya...>]

Michael Scheibler wrote:
> 
> I need cygwin's bash in order to work properly. I was using mingw in a
> separate directory and was resetting my PATH environment variable for
> it.
> But now I heard that it would be just enough to run cygwin's gcc with
> -mno-cygwin to actually have mingw.
> I tried it and found out that libmsvcrt.a is not automatically linked
> with my binaries.

You need to upgrade to a newer version of Cygwin GCC.  You should have
version gcc-2.95.2-9 or better.

> When I compared the two specs-files I saw that in mingw-specs there is a
> libmsvcrt.a mentioned while in cygwin's it is not. Is this a bug in
> cygwin's distribution?
> 

Cygwin's GCC until recently used libcrtdll.a instead of libmsvcrt.a.  I
have successfully caused the switch to libmsvcrt.a but only for newer
Cygwin releases of GCC.

> Now it is all ok, if I manually add msvcrt to my linked libs list. But
> there are three different versions in both cygwin/mingw and original
> mingw:
> libmsvcrt.a, libmsvcrt20.a and libmsvcrt40.a.
> Which one is "right" or which one is "best"?
> 

libmsvcrt.a is what should be used.  The other two are identical, IIRC.

Earnie.

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