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Re: [perl #33948] configure checking echo

From:
H.Merijn Brand
Date:
January 28, 2005 06:40
Subject:
Re: [perl #33948] configure checking echo
Message ID:
20050128154056.40193c75@pc09
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.

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