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From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Source for MinGW stuff in Cygwin
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On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 02:59:07PM +0100, J.D McLaughlin wrote:
>A while ago, while trying to find out how to write a getch function, I was
>told that the source for some part of Cygwin's MinGW stuff - either
>gcc-mingw-core/g++ or mingw-runtime - contained the source for one. After
>a while of searching the source for all three, I found:
>
>1.) There was no source for getch().
>
>2.) The folders (and compressed folders containing my attempts to fix the
>problem by installing later versions of the source) containing the source
>for gcc-mingw-core and gcc-mingw-g++ contained no source code at all,
>although they contained a few other items, such as header files and
>(surprisingly) executable files.
>
>Is this because the wrong files have been distributed, or is there some
>fact I'm not aware of re: getting at the source files?

The mingw project is:  http://mingw.org/ .

If you are looking for mingw information, that would be the place to get it.

The fact that Cygwin provides mingw component does not mean that this mailing
list is the right place to ask questions abouf mingw.

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