From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Fergus Henderson To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Subject: Re: Default compiler behaviour for b19 Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 23:33:00 -0000 Message-id: <199709091449.AAA01288@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <199709091041.DAA19490@rtl.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 1997-09/msg00176.html Geoffrey Noer writes: >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. I have to agree with Anthony Wesley that this would be a Bad Idea. >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... ... or both. Having `gcc' behave in this way makes sense only if the first goal is totally abandoned. But I don't see why we can't have both. The second goal is not particularly important to me, but if you want it, then surely the sensible thing would be to have two different commands (even if one is just a shell script that invokes the other with an certain option set). `gcc' should be the unix compatible version. Some other name should be chosen for the Win32 compiler. -- Fergus Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit WWW: < http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~fjh > | of excellence is a lethal habit" PGP: finger fjh@128.250.37.3 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".