On 08/03/09 04:40, Matt Wozniski wrote: [...] > Huh? They do different things. Cygwin provides a POSIX emulation > layer through cygwin1.dll, mingw provides mappings from POSIX concepts > to Windows concepts to try to make it possible to cross-compile POSIX > applications. What's there to be convinced about? Either one is the > right tool for the job, or the other is. > > ~Matt
Sounds like you'd end up convincing me that, if I were still on Windows -- which I'm not -- the right tool for compiling Vim would be MSVC... But I made the switchover to SuSE Linux, and like in fairytale stories, I've lived happily ever after. ;-) Best regards, Tony. -- A student who changes the course of history is probably taking an exam. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
