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Re: Possibility of a MinGW version?

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CFChristopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx>
Date
Dec 31, 2005, 16:40 UTC
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<20051231164012.GA24402@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
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On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 08:51:53AM -0500, Rob McDonald wrote:
>MSYS is a minimal system that includes ports of all build-chain tools
>you need to get Makefiles to work.  I would envision using it along
>with native ports of Perl, Tk/Tcl, etc.

MSYS is basically an unmaintained fork of Cygwin. It uses an old version of the Cygwin DLL with some hacks to handle path names differently. It isn't intended as a platform for porting packages to MSYS. It is intended to be used as an environment for porting packages to MinGW.

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Message 13 of 16 in “Possibility of a MinGW version?”
  1. Rob McDonaldDec 24, 2005
  2. Andreas EricssonDec 24, 2005
  3. Sven VerdoolaegeDec 24, 2005
  4. Andreas EricssonDec 24, 2005
  5. Johannes SchindelinDec 24, 2005
  6. David BrownDec 24, 2005
  7. Rob McDonaldDec 24, 2005
  8. Johannes SchindelinDec 24, 2005
  9. Rob McDonaldDec 25, 2005
  10. Christopher FaylorDec 31, 2005
  11. H. Peter AnvinDec 31, 2005
  12. Christopher FaylorJan 1, 2006
  13. Christopher FaylorDec 31, 2005
  14. Junio C HamanoDec 24, 2005
  15. Andreas EricssonDec 24, 2005
  16. Junio C HamanoDec 25, 2005

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