Brent Williams wrote:
> For those who don't know about the difference between mingw32 and
> cygwin:
>
> cygwin provides a unix envirtonment on win32 platforms. (bash shell and
> everything!) Kinda bulky but useful for porting stubborn apps.
>
> mingw32 has win32 ports. It is a younger port and borrorws from cygwin.
> I like the way you can build programs here that depend solely on the
> mscrt.dll stuff. It's a bit harder to deal with but I like the end
> results.
AFAICT, cygwin b20 borrows from mingw as well. If you compile with
-mno-cygwin (to produce a binary which doesn't depend upon
cygwin.dll), it uses the header files from the mingw32 directory.
> There is a third port that seems popular called DJPP? Haven't had a
> chance to review it.
DJGPP is for DOS, whilst cygwin is for Windows.
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