On 9/2/2013 1:38 PM, Baruch Burstein wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Ray Donnelly
wrote:
>
>> Also, I already answered that question.
>>
>> "MSYS2 is basically Cygwin without the posix-purity stuff going and
>> instead a laser sharp focus on interoperability betwe
On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Ray Donnelly wrote:
> Also, I already answered that question.
>
> "MSYS2 is basically Cygwin without the posix-purity stuff going and
> instead a laser sharp focus on interoperability between MSYS2 tools
> and Windows tools. It is "still Windows" but it uses it's ow
Also, I already answered that question.
"MSYS2 is basically Cygwin without the posix-purity stuff going and
instead a laser sharp focus on interoperability between MSYS2 tools
and Windows tools. It is "still Windows" but it uses it's own GCC that
links to (and creates software that links to) msys-
2013/9/2 Baruch Burstein
> Then how is msys essentially different than cygwin?
>
> MSYS dll has some peaces of code that translate cygwin-style paths to
windows-style paths for non-msys programs. Also software are patched to
properly work with windows line endings. This is primary differences
bet
Then how is msys essentially different than cygwin?
On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 5:25 AM, Alexey Pavlov wrote:
> msys-2.0.dll is renamed and patched cygwin1.dll.
>
>
> 2013/9/2 Baruch Burstein
>
>> What is this msys-2.0.dll? What functions does it supply? How is this
>> different than cygwin's infam
