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From:
Stephen
Date:
January 28, 2005 10:32
Subject:
Re: [perl #33948] configure checking echo
Message ID:
BAY0-SMTP05E0198CD9B5B2C67F7E919C790@phx.gbl
>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
>
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