Re: [Mingw-users] Time for native MSYS?

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On 28.02.2011 2:31, Charles Wilson wrote:
> On 2/27/2011 5:21 PM, Keith Marshall wrote:
>> I find MSYS to be slightly faster than Cygwin, but it's still slow,
>> which is why I prefer to use a cross-compiler hosted on GNU/Linux; it's
>> an order of magnitude faster.
> I have heard claims that running a linux guest in a virtual machine on a
> win32 host, and using a mingw-target cross compiler IN the linux guest,
> is actually faster than using either MinGW/MSYS or Cygwin...
>
> --
> Chuck
>
In that case you can implement something like MinWG (Minimalist Windows 
for GNU) and connect its Windows and *nix parts (one running natively, 
another - in VM) with sockets. If you handle the shared filesystem and 
I/O redirection correctly, you'd be able to run PE binaries on Windows, 
while everything else will remain in the VM.


...and no, i haven't been smoking anything...