Opps, you did mention that didn't you, I focused on the previous sentence, sorry.It does have the ability to create native Win32 apps that don't have dependencies on other libraries.
For me the ability to create native apps is a deal breaker, So I never really investigated cygwin, even though I use msys when I want to use a program in the bash shell anyway, like GCL for instance.
Stephen
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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
HTH
John
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