RE: [coLinux-devel] Getting started building coLinux.

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>> 3.) Is it dumb to ask if it's possible to use MinGW rather
>> than Cygwin to do builds?  I know about using Cygwin and
>> MinGW on Windows as a shell and build environment, but I
>> don't have any experience using them as a build tool platform
>> under Linux.  I do at least see that w32api from MinGW is
>> being used....
> This might be interesting. I don't know why though. IMO it is
> best to keep the build environment the same as the devs.
>

To the best of my knowlege. If the cygwin1.dll is needed for the posix
layer it provides then It would not be possible to build under MinGW.
MinGW is just a port of GCC to windows for programing with the windows api
Cygwin provides a posix layer for easy porting of *NIX programs to
windows.

If the posix layer is not needed then MinGW would be the better build
environment so that the cygwin1.dll is not required. The cygwin1.dll is
very sensitive to having multiple versions on machines. I do not know if
backwards compatibility is always maintained so it may not always be as
simple as replacing cygwin1.dll in either coLinux or the cygwin install
with the newer one.

chris