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Re: (Another) newbie problem
- To: Mumit Khan <khan@xraylith.wisc.EDU>, JRSON@NetZero.Net
- Subject: Re: (Another) newbie problem
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 18:58:05 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
--- Mumit Khan <khan@xraylith.wisc.EDU> wrote:
> Actually, there are other problems with this setup besides the
> quoting issue -- the pathnames have to specially handled by
> the driver before passing it on for example. UWIN folks do
> this to drive MSVC and there's quite a bit of work to be done
> (and I can still break it at will). If you can live with a
> little slowdown due to Cygwin overhead, why not just use a
> Cygwin hosted Mingw targeted toolchain (just install it somewhere
> else, and use PATH to switch to it)? As you can probably guess
> already, I have just the setup. In fact, I'm contemplating
> packaging it up (which takes a finite block of my time, hence
> the contemplation ;-) and putting it up for ftp.
I don't have to change the PATH with my setup, I just do an effective change
root command. I use all cygwin tools with the mingw32 compiler/binutils set
and giving the appropriate paths to the appropriate environment variables. I
have never ever, as I'm sure that Mumit hasn't either, had a conflict of
headers and libraries. Keep the two sets separated in there own world and you
won't have a problem.
BTW: This setup allows me to install a snapshot for testing without disturbing
what I know already works.
===
Earnie Boyd <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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