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From: "Paul G." <pgarceau AT comcast DOT net>
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Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 21:20:17 -0700
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Subject: Re: merging mingw and cygwin
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Got an error from qmail the last time I sent this.  Trying again...please, forgive any duplication.

On 11 Oct 2003 at 19:01, Edward Peschko wrote: 

However, #1 and #2 are a puzzle: why are they two separate projects? Its 
>terribly confusing; both have the same executable files created (ln and 
>rm, for example) so its hard to use one with the other; and its got to be 
>a maintenance nightmare to support separate patches for mingw and 
>separate patches for cygwin. 


	Mingw requires a different runtime than does Cygwin. 

	Mingw is short for Minimalist-Gnu for Windows.  It's function, at least in my mind, is to act as a "native" 
gcc/g++  build environment which does not rely on either posix or any unix-like support. 

	Afaik, whenever a new Mingw distribution comes out, Cygwin gets a copy of that distribution, probably minus 
the  Mingw specific binaries and utilities. 

	Paul G. 

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