Read and respond to this message at: https://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=3796468 By: keithmarshall
It depends what you want to use it for. MSYS aims to provide a *nix like environment, in which you can deploy the MinGW port of GCC, to facilitate building native Windoze apps, using a GNU style build system. It's effectively a stripped down fork of an early Cygwin, much lighter in weight, and creating apps without any Cygwin like DLL dependencies. For its `bash' shell alone, I prefer MSYS, to bare GnuWin32, and I usually favour the tools included with MSYS over their GnuWin32 counterparts. However, the tools provided by MSYS are pared to a minimal set, just sufficient to satisfy a majority of GNU package building requirements. (There is also an msysDTK, which adds `perl' and the GNU autotools, IIRC). Of course, this minimal set of tools may not be sufficient for your needs; it isn't for mine! In this case, I use MSYS + msysDTK + GnuWin32, running everything out of the MSYS `bash' shell; this works well for me. There is one caveat. With MSYS-1.0.10, the GnuWin32 apps must *not* be installed into the /bin or /usr/bin trees, of the MSYS installation; put them in /usr/local/bin instead, and all works as intended. BTW, I believe Kees uses MSYS/MinGW to actually *build* the GnuWin32 packages. HTH, Keith. ______________________________________________________________________ You are receiving this email because you elected to monitor this forum. To stop monitoring this forum, login to SourceForge.net and visit: https://sourceforge.net/forum/unmonitor.php?forum_id=74807 Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ GnuWin32-Users mailing list GnuWin32-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gnuwin32-users
