On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:30:44 -0500, John Peacock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Andy Dougherty wrote:
What is 'msys' ? That might explain the '.exe' suffix.
msys is the Minimal System for MinGW:
http://www.mingw.org/msys.shtml
I haven't had that much luck with it; CygWin is better maintained. It does have the ability to create native Win32 apps that don't have dependencies on other libraries. YMMV
And how does it compare to DJGPP, which I experienced as a nightmare.
I haven't looked at it in a couple years, but it is a fork of Cygwin with a lot of the fat trimmed. It was meant to be a minimal environment with the only goal being to run ./Configure scripts under Windows. When I was keeping up, it was very actively maintained by its creator, Ernie Boyd, and it was strongly linked with the MinGW project. IIRC, it was distributed with a version of (cygwin-ish?) perl. Given its goal, I'm not sure why anyone would want to build perl with msys as opposed to a native win32 build.
Randy.
