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by baskerville.CS.Arizona.EDU (8.11.1/8.11.1) id gAC2Yiw03153
for icon-group-addresses; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 19:34:44 -0700 (MST)
Message-Id: <200211120234.gAC2Yiw03153@baskerville.CS.Arizona.EDU>
From: Art Eschenlauer <art.eschenlauer@sufsys.com>
To: "'jeffery@cs.nmsu.edu'" <jeffery@cs.nmsu.edu>,
Art Eschenlauer
<art.eschenlauer@sufsys.com>
Cc: rhm@cdepot.net, gmt@cs.arizona.edu, icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Subject: RE: Cygwin (RE: UNIX tools on Windows)
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 15:38:40 -0600
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
Status: RO
[Clint contrasts the Windows compatibility of Cygwin and mingw32]
Yes, Apple deserves Kudos for going the unix-like path!
The nice thing about the Cygwin environment is that it is so feature rich.
Most of what you need is already available as packages, and if not then you
can readily compile and run many common software packages on Windows with
little more effort than it takes to say
./configure; make; make install
Since there are so many packages for it, it is more likely than not that
some odd unix utility that someone used in their makefile is already
deployed onto your machine.
Sadly, I have not succeeded in building Unicon with Cygwin, however.
In other words, IMHO, if you want to build stuff to give to others, mingw32
rocks. If you want an environment that makes you immediately productive on
windows, Cygwin is a great help.