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Re: gcc -mno-cygwin STL support for setup.exe?
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 13:06:32 -0500
- Subject: Re: gcc -mno-cygwin STL support for setup.exe?
- References: <20020118180305.GA2312@dothill.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 01:03:05PM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote:
>Unfortunately, I'm getting bogged down trying to add the rebase
>functionality to setup.exe due to the lack of STL. I am hoping that
>I will not have to re-implement linked lists and possibly associated
>arrays too. I see that Rob has a list class, but I don't think that it
>will meet all of my needs.
Weren't you going to rewrite rebase in C? It is very likely that it wouldn't
be accepted into binutils otherwise.
>About a year ago, there was some discussion about adding libstdc++.a to
>Cygwin's gcc -mno-cygwin mode. Can we revisit this issue?
The biggest issue with relying on libstdc++.a for for setup.exe is that it
requires this library to be built for cross-compilation. I have no idea how
to do that.
We have a looming problem here, though, since we will need to include at
least a libsupc++.a for -mno-cygwin if/when we start using gcc 3.x. I can't
build setup.exe with newer versions of gcc currently due to this lack.
I don't know if libstdc++.a even builds under mingw currently.
cgf