On 19/2-2012 11:59 AM, Ruben Van Boxem wrote:

> It really won't work. At all. MSYS is a minimalistic and old Cygwin,
> which is a POSIX software layer on top of Windows. The MSYS Bash is also
> at version 3.2 or something. Cygwin has 4.2 if I'm not mistaken. MinGW
> != MSYS/Cygwin, it's native Win32, without any serious posix support.
> MinGW-w64 fills some gaps, but it's impossible to have decent POSIX
> support for native Win32.
>

Then I learned something new today as well. I hoped that I just could 
have compiled bash and used bash.exe i mintty.
Thanks!

-- 
chs



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