From: Gour <gour@...>
Date: 2003-11-18T03:22:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Microsoft's C/C++ compiler freely available

Berger, Daniel (djberge@qwest.com) wrote:

> First, I've never heard of cygwin/mingw being used in a corporate
> setting.  It's either *nix or Windows, not *nix on Windows.  Even in a
> mixed environment, such as the one I'm in, you would never develop a
> Windows app under cygwin because you can't require that cygwin be
> installed on the client's machine.

Small correction. You don't need cygwin to use MinGW. It works nicely with
MSYS and provided shell-lile environment.

> Second, I can't count on a shared object built under cygwin to work on
> Windows without cygwin installed, even if I avoid fork.  It's just not a
> risk I'm willing to take.

MinGW produced libraries works with MSVCRT.

Sincerely,
Gour

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