[tex-k] [Fwd: Re: limiting \write18]

Taco Hoekwater taco at elvenkind.com
Wed Mar 4 22:06:12 CET 2009


Peter Breitenlohner wrote:
> 
> yes I know, and there are already other CWEB programs.
> 
> I have already processed luatexdir/lua/mp.w, and only hpoe there will be
> just one version of it (standalone and for luatex).

Just one version, definately.

> =================
> 
> A completely different question: can you tell me what is the difference
> between 'i386-mingw32-gcc' and 'i386-cygwin-gcc -no-cygwin' (the precise
> syntax is probably somewhat different).  Shouldn't these two produce the
> same binaries?

The results should be comparable if not identical, cygwin's -mno-cygwin
is essentially a cross-compiler to mingw. I find mingw's packaging much
better to handle, though.

Taco


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