-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/14/2010 21:20, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 14 December 2010 00:26, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: >>> mingw32-winnt >>> mingw64-winnt >>> mingw32-msys >>> mingw64-msys >>> mingw32-cygwin >>> mingw64-cygwin >>> >> >> ----8<---- >> MSYS is a collection of GNU utilities such as bash, make, gawk and >> grep to allow building of applications and programs which depend on >> traditionally UNIX tools to be present. It is intended to supplement >> MinGW and the deficiencies of the cmd shell. >> ----8<---- >> >> So msys is just a meta-package which runs on mingwXX-winnt. > > It's not. It's a fork of an old Cygwin version (1.3), with increased > emphasis on Windows integration. It has its own toolchain, and it > makes a big difference whether you build a program for MinGW or MSYS. > In particular, the MSYS DLL (née Cygwin DLL) does provide a fair chunk > of POSIX, whereas MinGW basically sticks with what Windows itself > provides. > > Andy >
Anybody needing POSIXness and developing on MSYS should really try Cygwin instead. MSYS is more of a mingw support platform (to run configure shell scripts etc) than a an actual platform on its own. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAk0HgTMACgkQp56AKe10wHdg7gCgg0OaWzj+xmoAgp0FtQv+U89u vBMAn1pvQ8QhbE1Y2goFoTf2dmggX/jb =+N6l -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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