Re: Support for MinGW compilers in the Cygwin environment

[Daniel Richard G.]

On Tue, 2013 Oct 22 7:14+0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> But “only” on Solaris (and I even question _that_ decision). In
> particular,
>
>  CC="gcc -m32" ./config.guess    # from sparc64, ppc64(non-IBM)
>  CC="gcc -mx32" ./config.guess   # from x86_64
>
> run from an sparc64-linux does not produce sparc-linux respectively,
> nor should it.

Hey, no one said this behavior was consistent :-)

> The platform in both -m cases is sparc64, it is just that one chose to
> use ELF32 objects (be it for performance reasons or just general
> enjoyment). The situation is (loosely) like choosing between "small"
> and "large" memory models in Borland Turbo C (and probably other DOS-
> era compilers).

It's a situation where the two "platforms" are not all that different---
the system can run binaries from both---and avoiding the need to
rigorously cross-compile from one to the other is a big convenience.

Obviously, Cygwin vs. MinGW programs is a different comparison from 32-
bit vs. 64-bit programs, but it's close enough to allow the same
argument to be made.


--Daniel


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