I'll try to explain situation from my perspective, Hoping it will be of of interest at least to somebody.
If I need some unix-y things, I usually end up using: http://www.vagrantup.com/ But using a virtual machine may be a bit too much overhead sometimes. (As I couldn't find any good intro/tutorial pages for following projects, direct links to installers are provided, sorry. But if I understand correctly, then they are somehow related to: http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/ For installing gcc/g++ there's a nice installer: http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/mingwbuilds/mingw-builds-install/mingw-builds-install.exe But sometimes you'll need some libraries as well, then there's : http://skylink.dl.sourceforge.net/project/mingw/Installer/mingw-get-setup.exe But sometimes those aren't unix-y enough, then you'd end up using cygwin. And it just doesn't feel so good. Blame projects mentioned above for setting expectations too high. ;-D On 2014-01-29 09:28 Christopher Faylor wrote: > It should be pretty obvious that discussion about MSYS is off-topic. > Please stop. I'll do it. And again, I'd like to thank all of you for your attention. -- Ilja Umov https://iljau.me/ -- View this message in context: http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/Cygwin-installer-could-be-much-more-better-tp105775p105830.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
