Hi Fabian,

Am Montag, den 18.01.2021, 09:48 +0100 schrieb Fabian Groffen:

> On 18-01-2021 06:04:45 +0100, Martin Oberzalek wrote:
> > > So, the inevitable question: who needs x64-cygwin/x86-winnt, 
> Ok, I thought *-winnt targets were native Windows code, apparently WSL
> is too?  (I'm just learning here, I guess.)

You are right, *-winnt is windows native and might be important when
compiling on WSL via a compiler wrapper like parity/or other helper tool with eg: visual studio  

> > But now we are using actual cygwin versions and our fork of gentoo. Currently this is only working
> > with the developer release of the cygwin.dll. What I can do is: testing the gentoo prefix stack with 
> > this upcomming new cygwin release (when its released) and give some feedback. If I can get it working I would update
> > 
> > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Prefix/Cygwin
> 
> I'm trying to understand what this means.  I'm sure/certain the current
> tree doesn't work for Cygwin.  This means I anticipate you'll have to
> patch/fix a lot of packages for it.  Would it be more useful to use an
> overlay for Cygwin instead?

I agree, maybe this would be a good solution.

Greetings, Martin