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Date:	Sun, 22 Aug 1999 11:34:50 -0600
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> If this is not true, please tell here where people could get the
> development tools (like Make, Texinfo, etc.).  This should be a valuable
> addition to the FAQ.

To summarize a rambling, offline response, when I was actively
programming for Windows, I preferred the djgpp tools. Using Cygwin adds
a distinct *nix flavor that may not please people coming from a
DOS/Windows background. 

Technically, I did have a problem with the Cygwin 'make' truncating long
lines. This may well have been a setup problem on my part, and
inadvertantly mixing incompatible versions of make and bash. MingW32 is
neutral if used alone. If used with Cygwin, it is possible to set your
environment variables in such a way as to include the wrong files, but
this is a pretty obscure error. I had no trouble with setting up djgpp
in my autoexec.bat, and just using a separate .bat to set up Ming when I
wanted to do windows work.


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