Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <19990928204107.28280.rocketmail@web129.yahoomail.com> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 13:41:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Subject: Re: Cygwin32 versus Mingw32 To: "Araujo, Isaque G." , cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- "Araujo, Isaque G." wrote: > Hi, I would want to know what are the basic differences between them. > Any help ? Cygwin supplies a POSIX layer to make porting of UNIX programs to Win32 easier. Mingw32 doesn't support this POSIX layer and provides M$ CRTDLL and MSVCRT runtimes support. However, you can use each of these to build the other if you've the right headers/libraries and enough know-how. The benefit of using Mingw32 is that it is speedier than Cygwin because it doesn't contain the emulation. Good Luck, ===== Earnie Boyd Newbies, please visit (If you respond to the list, then please don't cc me) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com