On 9/2/2013 1:38 PM, Baruch Burstein wrote: > On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Ray Donnelly <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Also, I already answered that question. >> >> "MSYS2 is basically Cygwin without the posix-purity stuff going and >> instead a laser sharp focus on interoperability between MSYS2 tools >> and Windows tools. It is "still Windows" but it uses it's own GCC that >> links to (and creates software that links to) msys-2.0.dll that >> provides a more posix-like set of system libraries and environment. >> >> A regular Windows toolchain would not be the same." >> .. could you do us all a huge favour and actually bother to read the >> replies people write to you, or just use Google? >> > I actually read that reply. That is what confused me. I guess I > didn't understand the term "POSIX-purity stuff". I had > understood your answer to mean that MSYS provides posixy tools > and libraries and a shell so that things like autoconf and > various make scripts and #includes will work, but this is all > just for compile time and in the end the compiled programs are > Windowsy, while cygwin lets them compile and run as i on a posix > system, with the .dll supplying the missing parts at runtime. > Then another answer here said that MSYS also had this .dll > issue, and that was what confused me.
Some of the comments referred to MSYS1 and others to MSYS2; I suspect the source of the confusion is regarding all comments as referring to just one MSYS. Also, regarding "...while cygwin lets them...": as far as I can recall, although some of the comments concerned what MSYS2 provides and although MSYS2 is based on cygwin, none of the comments concerned what cygwin provides. --Suresh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58040911&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
