From: Christopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx>
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 16:40:12 GMT
Subject: Re: Possibility of a MinGW version?
Message-ID: <20051231164012.GA24402@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
In-Reply-To: <009701c60891$50893fd0$6900a8c0@sps>

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.

cgf