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Re: [ITP] mingw-libjpeg, mingw-libpng, mingw-openssl
"Corinna Vinschen" wrote:
Charles said it all. Thanks for the offer, but MingW packages really
don't
belong in the Cygwin distro, but in the MingW distro.
I'm sorry, but on this one I must respectfully dissagree.
While Cygwin is clearly a disto, i find mingw to be more a compilation
target platform.
MSYS is a distro, but I don't think mingw32 is. As you probably know even
Debian
distributes some Mingw32 packages, as that is reasonable. Rember that
cygming-special
gcc's are dual target. One target is native, the other target is a
cross-compilation target.
Remember that a cross-compiled target may in fact run on the same machine it
was built on,
as in the case of compiling to the same platform but a different executable
format.
Cygwin includes what is basicly a cross-compiler, so it is reasonable to
include
a base set of libraries for the target platform. That said, it is also
reasonable not to
include tose libraries.