On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 3:56 AM, Ruben Van Boxem <[email protected]> wrote: > 2013/1/16 Ray Donnelly <[email protected]> >> >> unixy utils built with Boost? Very cool. It'd be nice if an explicit >> goal was cross compilation on many different OSes. >> >> ...but why not pitch in with MSYS2 instead? Your time, your choice, of >> course; both are very worthy projects I think. > > > MSYS2 has a different implementation goal: (the project, not the final > result) wants to create a POSIX programming environment that can accomodate > running pure Unix code compiled on top of a Cygwin-like POSIX compatibility > layer.
Not really the goal and never has been. MSYS is to provide a build environment for the mingw targets that identifies itself for the target of choice. That is all. Anything else you want to use Cygwin. The primary goal therefore is to provide a tool that can execute configure, make and make install on packages that are typically POSIX. The code of any package would need to conform to Microsoft Windows API. -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Java SE, Java EE, Eclipse, Spring, Hibernate, JavaScript, jQuery and much more. Keep your Java skills current with LearnJavaNow - 200+ hours of step-by-step video tutorials by Java experts. SALE $49.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122612 _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
