Re: [Mingw-users] Re: [gimpwin-dev] glib under mingw32 debian cross compiler, problem with windres : gmodule-win32res.lo: file not recognized: File format not recognized

[Christof Petig <christof petig-baender de>]

Christopher Faylor schrieb:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 04:03:28PM +0200, Christof Petig wrote:
>
> > [Summary: Cygwin is good to compile programs on win32 with minimal 
> > porting effort, but a stable port should use MinGW]

I meant build target not compiler tool chain.

> Summary: If you want to ignore all of the work that has gone into
> -mno-cygwin to make it work reliably, then use MinGW.

That was not what I said. I said nothing about the cygwin toolchain but 
about the build target.

Last year the -mno-cygwin (I need C++ & libtool !!!) support was suited 
to give me a lots of headaches and made me angry to have even tried. I 
never got a reliable gtkmm.dll out of that! And I tried for weeks.

From my experience and reading on the MinGW list:
- there seemed to be no one at cygwin interested in reliably maintaining 
the no-cygwin part.
- Mixing header files and import libraries was easily done within 
cygwin. The result normally failed to link or crashed randomly
- C++ support for -mno-cygwin was severely damaged

And I was not aware that it improved _that_ much. I still can't believe 
that the cygwin toolchain will give you a -mno-cygwin environment 
without lots of (undocumented?) 'never do this' and 'do it this way'.

Sorry, too much negative personal experience with cygwin on my side
   Christof