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Re: Cygwin32 versus Mingw32
- To: "Araujo, Isaque G." <Isaque dot Araujo at alcoa dot com dot br>, cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Cygwin32 versus Mingw32
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 13:41:07 -0700 (PDT)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
--- "Araujo, Isaque G." <Isaque.Araujo@alcoa.com.br> wrote:
> Hi, I would want to know what are the basic differences between them.
> Any help ?
Cygwin supplies a POSIX layer to make porting of UNIX programs to Win32 easier.
Mingw32 doesn't support this POSIX layer and provides M$ CRTDLL and MSVCRT
runtimes support.
However, you can use each of these to build the other if you've the right
headers/libraries and enough know-how. The benefit of using Mingw32 is that it
is speedier than Cygwin because it doesn't contain the emulation.
Good Luck,
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Earnie Boyd <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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