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Re: merging mingw and cygwin
- From: Edward Peschko <esp5 at pge dot com>
- To: Wayne <dockeen at mchsi dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 15:41:21 -0700
- Subject: Re: merging mingw and cygwin
- References: <IHEAIGJEFNKKKDPFCPECGEEJCCAA.dockeen@mchsi.com>
> to support just gcc. Everyone does not want all of the 600+ megabytes
> of Cygwin just because they want a C++ compiler (or C, or FORTRAN). That
> is why some good, open source IDE's for C/C++ use MingW as part of their
> full installation. No fuss, no muss, relatively lightweight download.
>
> Wayne Keen
>
Right.. all good points, but all minor barriers to overcome. All you would have to do
is put an 'install mingw subset' button on setup.exe, and it would well, install a mingw
subset and put cygwin in 'mingw mode'.
It sure would beat the install process for mingw right now, which is a manual
horror right now involving the download and installation of several,
separate packages in different directories.
If, of course -mno-cygwin == mingw, which I'm going through right now.
Ed
(
ps - even if I can cobble together, say berkeleydb which builds native in mingw right
now, how does -mno-cygwin benefit from all the work that the mingw team has done in
making the native windows port of cygwin work?
)
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