"Corinna Vinschen" wrote:
Charles said it all. Thanks for the offer, but MingW packages really don't belong in the Cygwin distro, but in the MingW distro.
I'm sorry, but on this one I must respectfully dissagree. While Cygwin is clearly a disto, i find mingw to be more a compilation target platform. MSYS is a distro, but I don't think mingw32 is. As you probably know even Debian distributes some Mingw32 packages, as that is reasonable. Rember that cygming-special gcc's are dual target. One target is native, the other target is a cross-compilation target. Remember that a cross-compiled target may in fact run on the same machine it was built on, as in the case of compiling to the same platform but a different executable format. Cygwin includes what is basicly a cross-compiler, so it is reasonable to include a base set of libraries for the target platform. That said, it is also reasonable not to include tose libraries.
