Re: Question on gcc install

[JonY <10walls at gmail dot com>]

On 6/22/2014 12:24, René Berber wrote:
> On 6/21/2014 9:13 PM, JonY wrote:
> 
>> There you go again with all the implications, mingw32 code is cross
>> compiled from Cygwin's point of view, so don't run it under Cygwin. Run
>> it under cmd or something.
>>
>> Was that too hard to understand?
> 
> Yes, because its not true, the code runs fine under Cygwin (as long as
> the executable and its dependencies are in the PATH, or on the current
> working directory, and all of them have the executable attribute set,
> i.e. it follows Windows' rules) the same as any other Windows program
> runs under Cygwin.

Sure you can make it work by messing with PATH, but you'd run into other
issues like PATH translation from the command line etc. Do to simplify
it for the user, just don't do it if you don't know what you're doing.

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