Re: [Mingw-users] Minimum MinGW / Eclipse (NEWBIE)

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

Quoting Ryan D'Baisse <rya...@gm...>:


>
> Again, just like MSYS, it would be great to know the pros and cons of
> using one, the other, or neither of them.  It's one thing to say, on
> the site, that they provide something, but it would be more
> beneficial to understand WHY you need them or how the benefit the
> environment from a MinGW standpoint.
>

MSYS has a goal of providing the MinGW user an environment to execute 
./configure scripts which generate a Makefile based on your 
environment.  But its usefulness as a shell environment where the 
commands are similar to UNIX goes beyond that goal.

Earnie Boyd

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