Got an error from qmail the last time I sent this. Trying again...please, forgive any
duplication.
On 11 Oct 2003 at 19:01, Edward Peschko wrote:
However, #1 and #2 are a puzzle: why are they two separate projects? Its
>terribly confusing; both have the same executable files created (ln and
>rm, for example) so its hard to use one with the other; and its got to be
>a maintenance nightmare to support separate patches for mingw and
>separate patches for cygwin.
Mingw requires a different runtime than does Cygwin.
Mingw is short for Minimalist-Gnu for Windows. It's function, at least in my
mind, is to act as a "native"
gcc/g++ build environment which does not rely on either posix or any unix-like
support.
Afaik, whenever a new Mingw distribution comes out, Cygwin gets a copy of that
distribution, probably minus
the Mingw specific binaries and utilities.
Paul G.
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