From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-10-31T00:25:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Another nail in CygWin's coffin (attached)

On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Michal Suchanek wrote:

> I use msys [1] when I want something like unix environment on Windows.
> To me it looks lighter than cygwin, and I get a toolchain that does
> not require cygwin1.dll (which causes many compatibility problems from
> what I have heared). But it may not be able to support some stuff that
> works under cygwin.
> I saw projects that use msys but I haven't built anything useful with
> the compiler. I just use the shell and diff when I need that.

i've compiled both the gnu scientific library, narray, and rbtree packages for
use on a window box here at work using msys.  all are immensely useful and
easy to compile under msys.  fyi.

-a
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