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From: fred smith <fredex AT fcshome DOT stoneham DOT ma DOT us>
Subject: Re: Cygwin and MinGW32 which is better
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VAMPYR <vampyr AT ms1 DOT url DOT com DOT tw> wrote:
: Cygwin and MinGW32 which is better? May you say the reason?

They're different kinds of animal,... how can one be better than the other?

MinGW32 is a compilation environment for Windoze.

Cygwin is a fairly complete unix-like environment for Windoze, which 
comes with but is not limited to a compilation environment.

I've not used either of the much, but have played with cygwin a little,
and it even seems to support background processes. I've compiled a couple
of Unix packages, including ncurses, on cygwin and it went quite nicely.

OTOH if all you want to do is build Windoze programs, MinGW32 may do
for you.


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