sturlamolden wrote: > Cygwin executables are native windows ".exe files" just like MinGW > executables. They are built by the same compiler, a port of GCC to 32 > bit Windows originally written by Mumit Khan.
No, Cygwin executables are built using a different port of GCC, the Cygwin port of GCC. The two ports are very similar, but the Cygwin port is a Cygwin application. That means, for example, it uses Cygwin pathnames instead of the standard Win32 pathnames that MinGW uses. Ross Ridge -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list