On 14 December 2010 13:20, Andy Koppe <andy.ko...@gmail.com> 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 >
What is GNU triplet for MSYS then? How different it is from the MinGW tripplet? Is it just a different ABI then? mingw-winnt - MinGW mingw-msys - MSYS w64-winnt - Mingw-w64 project cygwin-winnt - Cygwin ??? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
