Re: Building of win32 applications

[José Alburquerque <jaalburquerque cox net>]

Rob Pearce wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 July 2008, Damon Register wrote:
>   
> >  Though I am not certain, I wonder if
> > using MinGW might increase the risk of having code that would be Windows
> > specific while using Cygwin might lead you to code that is more unix
> > generic.
> >     
>
> When I tried to port an app from Linux to Windows, I hit a big problem with 
> g_io_channel handling on a serial port, and ended up having to write (or dig 
> up from a previous Borland project) windows-specific code. I don't think 
> cygwin would fix that, though.
>
> On the other hand, might cygwin produce code that needs lots of cygwin 
> libraries, whereas MinGW produces an application that only needs the GTK 
> windows port?
>
>   
If I recall correctly, when compiling code in cygwin, unless the switch 
`-mno-cygwin' is used (with gcc) the binary built will need the cygwin 
dll (so it can't be run if cygwin is not installed).  With the 
`-mno-cygwin' switch the cygwin dll is not required, but other things 
may be necessary.  Though dated, the following link may be relevant:


http://www.delorie.com/howto/cygwin/mno-cygwin-howto.html

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