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Subject: RE: complete newbie Q
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:43:17 -0000
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-Tim Prince wrote:
> Weiqi Gao wrote:
>> On 11/29/05, rosty <dima.hristov> wrote:

>> 
>>> For example, can a take a unix source,
>>> compile and run it under cygwin, then go to another win32 machine that
>>> has not cygwin installed, and run it there?
>> 
>> 
>> No.
>> 
> Unless you can accept -mno-cygwin as a solution.  

  Actually, the answer's _still_ no.

  If you use -mno-cygwin, you won't have the cygwin library functions
available, and most bog-standard unix sources won't compile without some
porting effort.  (MinGW provides _some_ of the POSIX syscalls, but it's a
massively less-complete implementation than Cygwin.  MSYS provides more, ).


    cheers,
      DaveK
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