Title: RE: not updating unwritable cache ../config.cache > -----Original Message----- > From: Earnie Boyd [ mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com ] > Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 1:43 PM > To: Bernard Dautrevaux > Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com > Subject: RE: not updating unwritable cache ../config.cache > > > --- Bernard Dautrevaux wrote: > -8<- > > > > Why? mingw gcc is compiled and run in the cygwin > environment I think, so go > > through cygwin1.dll that handles ntsec. > > > -8<- > > Mingw32 gcc and binutils _DO_NOT_ use the cygwin1.dll.  That > is the reason it > exists.  Instead it uses the runtime from M$.  So, Kai is > correct that Mingw32 > doesn't care about ntsec as far as the it's implementation > within cygwin1.dll. > I do know that the code _generated_ by mingw32 do not use cygwin1.dll; that's effectively the reason why it exists :-) But I think I've read that the "native" mingw32 toolset was in fact running under cygwin and using cygwin1.dll... but perhaps this is only true for the mingw32 cygwin-add-on, not for the independently distributed one. Forgive me if I'm not really sure, but for now quite a long time I'm using always mingw32 for all my NT development, but I'm using a cross-compiler running on UNIX (usually Linux, but I've also built the cross-toolset on other flavors of UNIX, like Solaris, where it runs fine). Regards,                 Bernard -------------------------------------------- Bernard Dautrevaux Microprocess Ingéniérie 97 bis, rue de Colombes 92400 COURBEVOIE FRANCE Tel:    +33 (0) 1 47 68 80 80 Fax:    +33 (0) 1 47 88 97 85 e-mail: dautrevaux@microprocess.com                 b.dautrevaux@usa.net --------------------------------------------