[Mono-list] Few Newbie Questions

[Eagle]

Ok guys i've been following the list for about 1 month now and kinda see the direction things are headed and thought it was about time I jumped into things.   My fist question being that on the go-mono site there are alot of refrences to the cygwin compiler for compiling on win32 , I myself use a MingW gcc based compiler so its not dependant on and of the cygwin dll's ( witch i believe make the ending program slow becouse of the posix emulation ) , so the question is has anyone had any luck with compiling on win32 with MingW ( the specific compiler i use is http://www.mingw.org , with GDB http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/ Debuger and http://www.bloodshed.net IDE all of witch are GPL on win32 )   hmmm i know there are some other things i will runinto along they way as I am a hardcore vb6 fan and am beging to catch onto c# and vb.net ( framework sdk ).   Brandon Holtsclaw www.omega-software.cc