From: Geoffrey Noer <noer@cygnus.com>
To: awesley@mail.acquerra.com.au
Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Default compiler behaviour for b19
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 03:50:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199709091041.DAA19490@rtl.cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <340F5F13.1843@acquerra.com.au>
Anthony Wesley wrote:
>
> Perhaps I am misreading the comments on the gnuwin32 home page, but it
> looks like Cygnus are proposing to have "gcc -o foo foo.c" generate
> native win32 binaries by default and not link with cygwin.dll. To
> compile UNIX-ish tools and link with the cygwin.dll library you will
> have to supply an extra command line option.
Yes, and this may still happen at some point down the road. Beta 19 will
still default to linking in Cygwin.dll.
> This seems silly to me, and the wrong way around. After all, gcc and all
> the nice tools and development environment came from the UNIX land, so
> surely generating UNIX-ish binaries should be the default, making
> porting UNIX applications and tools the native mode, whereas generating
> pure win32 binaries should be the "foreign" mode.
Perhaps, it depends on whether the goal is a Unix compiler running under
Win32 or a Win32 compiler running under Win32 with a Unix compatibility
option...
> It would be really strange to have "gcc -o foo foo.c" not work as
> expected by people coming from the UNIX world.
The auto-append of .exe by gcc is something that has been argued to death
on gcc mailing lists. I have mixed feelings about it.
--
Geoffrey Noer
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-09-09 3:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-09-04 21:18 Anthony Wesley
1997-09-09 3:50 ` Geoffrey Noer [this message]
1997-09-09 23:33 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-09-11 9:20 ` Christian Soeller
1997-09-09 23:33 ` Andrey A. Kulaga
1997-09-11 10:10 ` AECEULA, QUEST Team
1997-09-12 9:32 ` Earnie Boyd
1997-09-12 12:07 ` M. Halpin
1997-09-12 20:49 ` Where is b19 Daniyal Syed
1997-09-13 11:51 ` Michael Hirmke
1997-09-09 3:50 Default compiler behaviour for b19 Sonic Junior
1997-09-10 22:54 Colin Peters
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