On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:28:56PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >Meh. Unlike linux, there is a significant portion of the cygwin user >base that treats cygwin simply as a "build environment" -- but use a >compiler for native win32 $hosts. > >I don't much like it, but that's reality. (...why did Cygnus fund the >early development, in the first place? To have a windows-hosted build >environment for xxx-target compilers: in this case, xxx = native-win32)
Cygnus funded the work to provide windows *hosted* cross compilers for other architectures. Targetting *native* targeted win32 did not come until a couple into the life of the project. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
