Re: svn on cygwin!

On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 13:07:47 -0700
"Powell, Jim (EER)" <PowellJF@navair.navy.mil> wrote:

> The -mno-cygwin includes the cygwin library as a static, instead of a dll,
> so in theory it should work the same.

This is not correct. When built with -mno-cygwin the resulting .exe is
linked to msvcrt.dll instead of cygwin1.dll.

> However, I'm so happy that it works that I really don't mind moving the
> cygwin.dll file around, of course I do have cygwin on my machine anyway, so
> it is no extra work for me.

I am not sure it matters much right now. Subversion currently requires Cygwin
since we exec GNU patch and GNU diff. The "right" long term solution is to
build with the Mingw compiler (www.mingw.org). It began life as the -mno-cygwin
flag but it is much easier to deal with when compared to Cygwin gcc.

cheers
Mo DeJong

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