Chris Lambacher wrote: > The shell that comes with MSys (from the MinGW guys). Is pretty good, although > it does have a bit of a problem with stdout output before a process exits, ie > it will hold back output until the process exits. > > As a bonus, the file system is a little more sane, and if you are interested > in compiling software that is not open source, you are not tied to the Cygwin > DLL which is GPLed.
Worth mentioning here that cygwin's gcc does allow a -mno-cygwin compile-time flag to not link against the cygwin dll. Cygwin's packaging system also includes the MinGW development libraries as an easily installable option, for compiling against mingw's stuff; I've done it for Python extensions, in fact. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
