Re: Cygwin and g++

From:
James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 9 Jan 2008 02:25:05 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
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On Jan 8, 7:44 pm, Ale <alkon...@freemail.it> wrote:

I need to compile with "Make" a source written for linux that
I need to execute under a Win32 system.

I tried to launch Make under cygwin, and it works fine, but it
doesn't run under Win32 without CygWin (cygwin1.dll is
required, and even if I put this file in the application PATH
and in windows/system32 path, the executable doesn't work!)

I read that I need to compile sources using MinGW g++ version,
but launching makefile after setting the MinGW/bin path in
PATH enviroment variable, I get a lot of errors.

What's wrong?


You're asking in the wrong place? Off hand, it looks like
you're trying to mix envirionments. It's possible, but it's
generally much easier to use just a single environment: either
Cygwin, with the make and g++ from Cygwin, or MinGW, with the
make and g++ from MinGW. (One of the reasons its simpler, of
course, is that you only have one place to ask if there are
problems: on either the CygWin mail list, or on the MinGW mail
list.)

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