On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:30:44 -0500, John Peacock <jpeacock@rowman.com> wrote: > Andy Dougherty wrote: > > > What is 'msys' ? That might explain the '.exe' suffix. > > msys is the Minimal System for MinGW: > > http://www.mingw.org/msys.shtml > > I haven't had that much luck with it; CygWin is better maintained. It > does have the ability to create native Win32 apps that don't have > dependencies on other libraries. YMMV And how does it compare to DJGPP, which I experienced as a nightmare. -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using Perl 5.6.2, 5.8.0, 5.8.3, & 5.9.2 on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00 & 11.11, AIX 4.3, SuSE 9.0 pro 2.4.21 & Win2k. http://www.cmve.net/~merijn Smoking perl: smokers@perl.org, perl QA: http://qa.perl.org reports to: smokers-reports@perl.org, perl-qa@perl.org