Verbose explanation about the cygwin issue

[Alexandre Julliard]

GOUJON Alexandre <ale.goujon at gmail.com> writes:

> To fix it, we need to add msvcrt include (not to link with msvcrt :
> it's a .o)
>
> ccache gcc-4 -D__WINE__ -c -o cmd.exe-iqnSoR-q4unrB.o cmd.exe-iqnSoR.c
> -I../../include -I../../include/msvcrt/
> succeeds.
>
> At this point, we return from mingw_unicode_hack to line 722.
>
> And winegcc goes on:
>
> 779  _        if (!opts->shared && (opts->use_msvcrt ||
> opts->unicode_app)) strarray_add(link_args, "-lmsvcrt");
> ...your patch
> 781  _if (res_o_name) compile_resources_to_object( opts, resources,
> res_o_name );
> ...the previous line works, no errors but
> 783  _        spawn(opts->prefix, link_args, 0);
> ..fails
>
> Indeed, the linker [2] wants to link with msvcrt but don't know where
> the library is :
>
> /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld:
> cannot find -lmsvcrt
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> winegcc: ccache failed
> make: *** [cmd.exe] Error 2
>
> Finally, adding -L option [3], all's right.

You can't add include or lib options, that will break the Mingw
build.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org