Cygwin32 versus Mingw32

[Earnie Boyd]

--- "Araujo, Isaque G." <Isaque.Araujo@alcoa.com.br> wrote:
> Hi, I would want to know what are the basic differences between them.
> Any help ?

Cygwin supplies a POSIX layer to make porting of UNIX programs to Win32 easier.

Mingw32 doesn't support this POSIX layer and provides M$ CRTDLL and MSVCRT
runtimes support.

However, you can use each of these to build the other if you've the right
headers/libraries and enough know-how.  The benefit of using Mingw32 is that it
is speedier than Cygwin because it doesn't contain the emulation.

Good Luck,

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Earnie Boyd < mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com >

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