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H.Merijn Brand wrote: > 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. > I haven't looked at it in a couple years, but it is a fork of Cygwin with a lot of the fat trimmed. It was meant to be a minimal environment with the only goal being to run ./Configure scripts under Windows. When I was keeping up, it was very actively maintained by its creator, Ernie Boyd, and it was strongly linked with the MinGW project. IIRC, it was distributed with a version of (cygwin-ish?) perl. Given its goal, I'm not sure why anyone would want to build perl with msys as opposed to a native win32 build. Randy.