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From: khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu (Mumit Khan)
Subject: Re: Mingw32 & Cygwin32 (b19)
8 Mar 1998 13:41:51 -0800 :
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To: Paul Garceau <pgarceau AT teleport DOT com>
Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Paul Garceau wrote:
> 	In regards to this, several questions have just popped into my mind re: 
> Mingw32 and Cygwin32 (b19).
> 
> 	1.	Can they co-exist? (Newbie question)
> 
> 	By co-exist, I mean is it possible to use headers or libs from both 
> Mingw32 and Cygwin32 to compile single executables?  

The two systems use two different incompatible runtimes, and you CANNOT 
use both in the same application.

AFAIK b19 is not thread-safe.

Regards,
Mumit

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