Usually it's because Cygwin is usually a lot slower than native for IO
heavy operations. Projects (such as the Android NDK) that supply
Cygwin-based compilers usually try to migrate to native ASAP, viewing the
Cygwin-based tools as a stop-gap measure.
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Corinna Vinschen <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Jun 19 14:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Jun 19 16:01, LRN wrote:
> > > Cygwin emulates untyped linking (ln -s) by checking the type of the
> > > target and creating the link of the right type. If the target doesn't
> > > exist, you're screwed.
> >
> > Not really screwed. But if the target doesn't exist, you have the
> > choice between creating a file symlink or a directory symlink, and you
> > just don't know what the target will be.
> >
> > If you create a dir symlink,
> > and the later created target turns out to be a file or vice versa,
> > the *native* tools will be screwed since the path resolution mechanism
> > requires the symlink type to reflect the target type.
> >
> > Cygwin ignores the symlink type and resolve the symlink just by path, so
> > in Cygwin all symlinks will work.
>
> Btw., this is one reason why I don't understand the desire to use native
> tools. If you can get a working POSIXy build environment for free, why
> do you want to use native tools which only generate problems you could
> easily do without weird tweaks to the Cygwin DLL?!?
>
>
> Corinna
>
>
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