>It does have the ability to create native Win32 apps that don't have >dependencies on other libraries. Opps, you did mention that didn't you, I focused on the previous sentence, sorry. For me the ability to create native apps is a deal breaker, So I never really investigated cygwin, even though I use msys when I want to use a program in the bash shell anyway, like GCL for instance. Stephen ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Peacock via RT" <perlbug-followup@perl.org> To: <stecmccarthy@hotpop.com> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 8:30 AM Subject: Re: [perl #33948] configure checking echo > 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 > > HTH > > John > > -- > John Peacock > Director of Information Research and Technology > Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group > 4501 Forbes Boulevard > Suite H > Lanham, MD 20706 > 301-459-3366 x.5010 > fax 301-429-5748 > >Thread Next