From: Pau G. i Q. <pgq...@el...> - 2012-02-19 15:24:01
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On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Ruben Van Boxem <van...@gm...> wrote: > MSYS is a minimalistic and old Cygwin, which > is a POSIX software layer on top of Windows. The MSYS Bash is also at > version 3.2 or something. Cygwin has 4.2 if I'm not mistaken. MinGW != > MSYS/Cygwin, it's native Win32, without any serious posix support. MinGW-w64 > fills some gaps, but it's impossible to have decent POSIX support for native > Win32. Earnie Boyd and others started MSYS 2.0 a few months ago (based on bash 4.0 and cygwin 1.7). -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) |