Linux fans would love to use Linux all of the time, but sometimes it just isn't possible. Maybe a certain application requires that you use Windows, or perhaps you're forced to use Windows at work.

If you have access to a Windows machine, it might be simpler to install mingw on it and compile on it directly. (And mingw's gcc won't generate binaries that depend on cygwin1.dll.) ...

I want to permanently alias 'gcc' to 'gcc -mno-cygwin'. Is there any way that I can set that up so I don't have to do it everytime I fire up Cygwin?