Re: Tools under Windows

[Bob Friesenhahn]

It sounds like you want to use MinGW (http://www.mingw.org/) rather 
than Cygwin.  When used in conjunction with the MSYS shell 
environment, MinGW allows building normal WIN32 applications with no 
dependence on anything but standard WIN32 DLLs.

Bob

On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, BRM wrote:

> I want to be able to run the AutoTool chain natively
> under Windows. I did some looking around, and
> everyone´s answer primarily seems to be ¨run Cygwin¨.
> Unfortunately, Cygwin is not an option for me as I
> can´t tell my clients to install Cygwin to use my
> product. (They´d go to someone else.) Same applies for
> Microsoft´s SFU, and UWin.
>
> It would be nice to use those environments except that
> the problem is they introduce dependancies due to the
> environment. I want to run the tool chain natively in
> Windows so that I don´t have to maintain a VC++ setup
> in addition to my Unix tool chain. (And I´d rather
> avoid the batch files and other stuff as well.)
>
> Does anyone know of a project that could help solve
> the problem? I guess, I am primarily looking for a
> non-intrusive cmd.exe replacement for Windows 2000
> Pro.
>
> TIA,
>
> Ben

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