On Sun, 1 Aug 2010, Andreas K. Foerster wrote:
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 06:07:41PM -0500, Rugxulo wrote:
The only reason (AFAICT) to use MinGW is if you don't need POSIX and just want "fast and simple" binaries or if you dislike the Cygwin .DLL license issue.
No, I use MinGW because it is AFAICT the only compiler to build Windows executables for which you don't have to have a Windows system. ;-)
I meant vs. Cygwin. In other words, I see a lot of MinGW projects.
I also meant versus Cygwin. I am not aware that Cygwin could be used as a cross compiler. I know no distribution that has a Cygwin cross compiler, but many have a MinGW cross compiler.
Cygwin actually comes with an optional set of MinGW libraries. I normally use Cygwin GCC and friends to create MinGW execs since I have a hard time working on Windows without Cygwin anymore (the X server is addictive) and I don't really want to have to maintain a separate MinGW/MSYS installation on my Windows box.
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