Re: Removing --with-gcc, Cygwin

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Glenn Morris <address@hidden>
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> Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:00:42 -0500
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > nt/INSTALL is not relevant to Cygwin builds.
> 
> My total ignorance of such issues is what prompted my question.
> It certainly seems to be related to Cygwin to me:
> 
> 
>    If you are using certain Cygwin builds of GCC, such as Cygwin
>    version 1.1.8, you may need to specify some extra compiler flags like so:
>   
>      configure --with-gcc --cflags -mwin32 --cflags -D__MSVCRT__
>        --ldflags -mwin32
>   
>    However, the latest Cygwin versions, such as 1.3.3, don't need
>    those switches; you can simply use "configure --with-gcc".

This talks about Cygwin builds of GCC, not of Emacs.  The switches
mentioned above let Cygwin GCC produce native Windows executables (as
opposed to Cygwin executables, which depend on Cygwin runtime
support).