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[Johan Jansson <johanjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 11:51:10AM +0200, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> Is the -fPIC compiler flag essential? It breaks cygwin. If it's needed, I can
> make changes for cygwin.
> 
> Garth
> 
> 

The code must be compiled with -fPIC on AMD64, otherwise shared
libraries cannot be generated (right now this is only needed for
PyDOLFIN). So it's only essential for AMD64 (which is disjoint from
cygwin as far as I can see). It would be great if cygwin could be
detected though and -fPIC disabled.

  Johan