> >> I would agree that if you want an executable that acts and feels more > like a Windows native application, then mingw is probably what you want. > Cygwin is if you want something that acts and feels more like a Posix > thing ... which means it will be oriented to Posix style paths. > > To be able to use mingw all the code have to be ported to use Windows > > native mechanisms and then we might just use MSVC instead > > > > We don’t want (either) Windows-style-paths or Posix-style-paths, we > > want A path and expect it to work equally regardless of what platform > > is used in regards to std::filesystem > > > > As far as I see, very few applications do form their own - and/or have > > hard-coded absolute paths and instead they are usually input data > > (through UI, configuration, OS, environment or such) > > IN this context, I would say "Which std::filesystem? The Cygwin Posix- > like one or the mingw Windows-like one?" If you want uniformity, I'd go > with Cygwin; it you want platform-like behavior, then mingw.
I'm referring to std::filesystem as a part of the C++17 standard (https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/filesystem) that is pretty well defined and quite agnostic to what "style" of path used as our application are and as I said, we don't care (we don't ever inspect them) what "style" of paths we're using but we expect a deterministic behaviour from that library regardless of operating system, such as and absolute path should be an absolute path regardless That's the sole purpose of std::filesystem, i.e. to be platform independent (though all file-features is not applicable on all operating systems, but at least you can ask the library for those attributes) GCC/MinGW support platform-INDEPENDENT-behaviour because gcc/g++ works equally regardless if Linux or Windows in regards to std::filesystem Best regards, Kristian > Best wishes - EM > -- > Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
