From: Alexey Borzenkov <snaury@...>
Date: 2009-01-22T15:55:25+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:21512] Re: [PATCH] Allow building ruby with mingw

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5:08 AM, Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:48:47 +0900,
> Alexey Borzenkov wrote in [ruby-core:21448]:
>> So this makes me really wonder how people are building Ruby with mingw and
>> avoid this problem? Are you using something else beside msys? Would my
>> patch break things for you then?
>
> "Mingw port" means to compile with -mno-cygwin on Cygwin, for
> us.

Hmm? And how do you call configure to do that?

Setting CC to "gcc -mno-cygwin" and CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS/LDFLAGS to
"-mno-cygwin" and then calling configure has no effect, they are just
completely ignored and I end up with a cygwin build. So what is the
official way to compile with -mno-cygwin?