[SDL] Building without -mno_cygwin

[Ross Smith]

On Tuesday, 8 May 2007 03:10, Ben Wilhelm wrote:
> I'm trying to build SDL on Cygwin without -mno_cygwin. ...
>
> The reason I wanted this is because -mno_cygwin is kind of a hack to
> sidestep Cygwin's libraries, and if you use it, any libraries you
> want to use afterwards must be specially built with that flag. ...
>
> Specifically, I've had to make my own custom builds of both libogg
> and boost in order to make my game function under Cygwin. ...

This doesn't match my experience. I've used the standard Windows build 
of SDL (the one downloaded from the SDL site) with native Cygwin 
applications  and libraries, including the Cygwin-distributed version 
of Boost. Everything works fine. You don't need a special Cygwin build 
of SDL.

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