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Re: gcc-patches Digest 10 Mar 2005 15:39:02 -0000 Issue 7403
- From: "E. Weddington" <ericw at evcohs dot com>
- To: mark at codesourcery dot com
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, dannysmith at users dot sourceforge dot net, ian at airs dot com, dj at redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:33:17 -0700
- Subject: Re: gcc-patches Digest 10 Mar 2005 15:39:02 -0000 Issue 7403
- References: <1110469142.25773.ezmlm@gcc.gnu.org>
Mark Mitchell wrote:
Personally, I'd much rather MinGW not have an extension library, or at
least that it be as small as possible. I think it's very desirable to
have a GNU toolchain for Windows that is *just* that; for example,
some people like/need to be able to compile GNU software with a
non-GNU compiler.
Heartily agreed. If MinGW keeps having an extension library, then it
becomes no better than Cygwin. One of the strong attractions to MinGW is
that is NOT Cygwin and that it can build self-contained (i.e. no extra
DLLs required) Win32 executables of GNU software without having to go
through some of the hoops of building on Cygwin.
Eric