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Re: Has anyone progressed/tried to port glibc to non posix system (windows)
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
- Cc: libc-ports at sourceware dot org, Vishal Agrawal <vishal4556 at gmail dot com>
- Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 18:32:04 -0400
- Subject: Re: Has anyone progressed/tried to port glibc to non posix system (windows)
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On 04/05/2013 04:09 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Friday 05 April 2013 10:44:37 Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>> Why not consider using cygwin?
>
> at least recommend mingw instead of cygwin :)
You're right, mingw + msys might be enough for the
users requirements.
You must keep in mind that mingw's design is to
provide an open source build environment for windows
development and not a portability layer. Though the
mingwex runtime has some portability functions to
aid in the transition, it still just using the Windows
C runtime.
Cheers,
Carlos.