Subject: Re: merging mingw and cygwin
From: Edward Peschko <[email-masked]>
To: Wayne <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 15:41:21 -0700

> to support just gcc.  Everyone does not want all of the 600+ megabytes
> of Cygwin just because they want a C++ compiler (or C, or FORTRAN).  That
> is why some good, open source IDE's for C/C++ use MingW as part of their
> full installation.  No fuss, no muss, relatively lightweight download.
> 
> Wayne Keen
> 
Right.. all good points, but all minor barriers to overcome. All you would have to do 
is put an 'install mingw subset' button on setup.exe, and it would well, install a mingw
subset and put cygwin in 'mingw mode'. 

It sure would beat the install process for mingw right now, which is a manual 
horror right now involving the download and installation of several,
separate packages in different directories.

If, of course -mno-cygwin == mingw, which I'm going through right now.

Ed

(
    ps - even if I can cobble together, say berkeleydb which builds native in mingw right
    now, how does -mno-cygwin benefit from all the work that the mingw team has done in
    making the native windows port of cygwin work?
)

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