From: Jonathan T. <tec...@ka...> - 2005-08-04 19:25:09
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Adib Taraben wrote: > Jonathan Turkanis schrieb: >> Hi all, >> >> As I mentioned recently, I'm coauthoring a book on C++ which will >> mention MSYS. I'd like you to look at what I've written to see if >> it's accurate and easy to understand. I'm especially interested to >> know if I've mischaracterized MSYS's limitations. > I thing it is worth to mention that Cygwin does a compatibily layer in > between the applications and the win32 to emulate the POSIX calls > whereas MINGW uses native calls (agains MSVCRT) with no emulation at > runtime. I think your right -- this desrves at least one sentence in the discussion section. Since it's a task-oriented C++ book, I can't give a very detailed explanation, though. Thanks, Jonathan |