Re: [Mingw-users] mingw execv() bug bites cygwin gdb

[MARSHALL K. <Kei...@to...>]

> MARSHALL Keith <Kei...@to...> writes:
>
> Just a small clarification:
>
> [snip]
>
> >     the wealth of standardised UNIX tools, which are what we look
> >    to MinGW to provide, make it a relatively trivial exercise.
>
> As far as I know, the MinGW project is not about providing *nix
> tools. That's Cygwin.  MinGW is about using GNU development tools for
> creating native Win32 apps. If you expect an *nix-like behavior either
> from the MinGW tools or from the applications produced with them, you
> will be dissapointed.

A fair comment Oscar.

I *do* use Cygwin to give me a [fairly] comprehensive UNIX tool set,
when I am working on a Win2000 system.  I develop my own applications,
either on GNU/Linux, or in the Cygwin environment; these are generally
command line tools to assist me in my corporate job function.

What I expect from MinGW then, is the ability to compile these tools
to native Win32 binaries, so that I can make them available to other
users within our Company, *without* the need for a Cygwin installation
on the end user's workstation.

I don't think this is an unreasonable expectation; in general, I have
*not* so far been disappointed.

Regards,
Keith Marshall.