[Haskell-cafe] building ghc on win with gcc of cygwin, without cygwin1.dll (-mno-cygwin flag) ?

[Marc Weber]

Hi.. I've found the nice documentation about building ghc on
haskell.org/ghc -> documentation.
There is one chapter (#1) about C compilers and environments to use:
Either  MSYS or cywin   and
gcc of MinGW because gcc of cygwin will link to cygwin1.dll by default
which may change and therefore can brake your apps.
Googling around I've found that there exists the -mno-cygwin flag which
you can use to not include this lib.. So would it might be possible to
get a ghc build not using cygwin.dll with just cygwin ?
I haven't read anything about that in those docs.

Or does this flag simply include cygwin.dll within your apps (statically
linked) ?

#1 :http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/building/platforms.html#ghc-cygwin

Marc