The short answer is that there's more to a build environment than what mingw supplies.
Since the mono project is designed to be built on both windows an linux it makes sense to have a common build environment on both operating systems. Currently the easiest way to do this is with GNU/Linux & GNU/Cygwin - remember this has nothing to do with the generated executables, just the build environment. Cygwin provides the most convenient win32 distribution of build dependancies like make, pkg-config, bash, autoconf, etc... You could probably find mingw versions of these tools, but i doubt the compatibility running the same scripts would be as good. piers -----Original Message----- From: Eagle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 9:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Mono-list] Few Newbie Questions yes but what about using just mingw WITHOUT the cygwin enviroment ( I.E. the Minimalist MinGW www.mingw.org ) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dick Porter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Eagle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 10:49 AM Subject: Re: [Mono-list] Few Newbie Questions > On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 09:28:15AM -0500, Eagle wrote: > > My fist question being that on the go-mono site there are alot of refrences to the cygwin compiler for compiling on win32 , I myself use a MingW gcc based compiler so its not dependant on and of the cygwin dll's ( witch i believe make the ending program slow becouse of the posix emulation ) , so the question is has anyone had any luck with compiling on win32 with MingW ( the specific compiler i use is http://www.mingw.org , with GDB http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/ Debuger and http://www.bloodshed.net IDE all of witch are GPL on win32 ) > > We use the mingw compiler on cygwin. (BTW, the enter key is the large one with > the arrow pointing down, and to the left). > > - Dick > > _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
