Re: [Mingw-users] Mingwport vs gnuwin32

[Tim S. <sta...@ve...>]

NightStrike wrote:

> There are several things that have been ported to Windows, and are
> available as part of "MinGWPORT".  What is the difference between
> these tools and those provided by the gnuwin32 project (with the
> exception of the installer that comes with gnuwin32)?
>

Many of the gnuwin32 has DLLs to support the exe file. 
>From a user point of view, I consider the gnuwin32, UnxUtils and MinGW
very much the same. 

The License of MinGW Team stuff tends to be BSD License or Public
Domain. The GCC is of course under the GPL.

One of the major design items of MinGW was to only require the
Windows System DLL to be installed for MinGW commands to work.
 
While gnuwin32 had no design requirement to prevent the use of custom
DLLs in thier project. It uses many DLLs.

The UnxUtils looks to be very MinGW in its non use of DLLs

Tim S

http://sourceforge.net/projects/unxutils/