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On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:28:56PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
>Meh.  Unlike linux, there is a significant portion of the cygwin user
>base that treats cygwin simply as a "build environment" -- but use a
>compiler for native win32 $hosts.
>
>I don't much like it, but that's reality.  (...why did Cygnus fund the
>early development, in the first place?  To have a windows-hosted build
>environment for xxx-target compilers: in this case, xxx = native-win32)

Cygnus funded the work to provide windows *hosted* cross compilers for
other architectures.  Targetting *native* targeted win32 did not come
until a couple into the life of the project.

cgf

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