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Subject: Source for MinGW stuff in Cygwin
From: "J.D McLaughlin" <J.D.McLaughlin@newcastle.ac.uk>
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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?

Thanks for any help,

James McLaughlin.


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