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> 
> In addition to "cygwin", which has a large overhead,
> the same project has another package called, I think,
> "mingw".  Unlike cygwin, which requires a cygwin dll
> to be on the system, and is GPL'ed, mingw compiles
> are standalone and can be used to generate non-GPL'ed
> executables (I think I'm correct there, net lawyers will
> complain if I'm not :)
> 
> I've not, but I wonder if anyone has tried to get a
> set of amanda client executables built under mingw
> and using the previously mentioned tarNT?
> 
> BTW, the mingw package would be another way to build
> the selfcheck/true executable without a full IDE.

Amanda Win32 Sourceforge project IS based on a mingw solution.

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