On 4/12/2013 02:44, leledumbo wrote:
why use cygwin when mingw is available?
Highly *nix tied programs that needs quick porting can use it (e.g.: those
that use X11).
ok...
what is the difference between the two?
MinGW doesn't implement the *nix layer (Msys does, though only for the shell
and small programs, not the whole system), it only consists of GCC port
(with binutils and friends) linked against M$ C runtime library.
hummm... ok...
can i compile an app with either one and then run that app natively on
winwhatever /without/ having to install either cygwin or mingw?
All Cygwin binaries depend on cygwin1.dll, so you must distribute that with
the program. With MinGW, there's a smaller C runtime library that must be
distributed as well. I don't remember either provide statically linked
version of those libraries.
thank you for the information... i've marked it to be saved for future reference
if it comes up for my needs ;)
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