Re: [9front] Re: [PATCH] drawterm: get 64-bit windows to work

[Amavect <amavect@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 15 May 2022 15:44:42 +0000 (UTC)
sirjofri <sirjofri+ml-9front@sirjofri.de> wrote:

> However, Make.win64 mentions that I can set MING to nothing when not 
> cross-compiling since it would just use gcc then. I tried it, but it 
> failed at some #include (I think it was direct.h). It is possible
> that it uses the "other" gcc version I installed on cygwin which
> tries to find libraries that aren't installed.

MSYS2's mingw64 environment requires the MING prefix to be empty
due to some programs (like windres) not having a prefix.
gcc and $(MING)gcc are aliases in that environment.
(MSYS2 is basically Cygwin but with pacman.)
Cygwin's unprefixed gcc targets its posix emulation dll,
so you'd always want to use the prefix to cross-compile.
It might also be missing parts of the win32 api.
Different gccs can have different default include directories.
It's confusing.

Thanks,
Amavect