On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Pau Garcia i Quiles <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Ruben Van Boxem > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> MSYS is a minimalistic and old Cygwin, which >> is a POSIX software layer on top of Windows. The MSYS Bash is also at >> version 3.2 or something. Cygwin has 4.2 if I'm not mistaken. MinGW != >> MSYS/Cygwin, it's native Win32, without any serious posix support. MinGW-w64 >> fills some gaps, but it's impossible to have decent POSIX support for native >> Win32. > > Earnie Boyd and others started MSYS 2.0 a few months ago (based on > bash 4.0 and cygwin 1.7). >
I'm hoping to get back to it by summer. See https://sourceforge.net/u/earnie/msys2/home/Home/ and https://sourceforge.net/u/earnie/msys2/support/faq/thread/7a480221/ -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
