From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
Subject: Re: Starting learning ADA
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2019 10:25:06 +0300
Date: 2019-06-09T10:25:06+03:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <gm3qigF5cdqU1@mid.individual.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <prjofelo5b7bcbpf70k2bt86luidu5as87@4ax.com>
On 19-06-09 04:42 , Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> No surprise -- mingw32 is an environment on Windows to support
> UNIX/Linux run-time calls
No, mingw32 provides ports to Windows of GNU compilers and many GNU
tools. These ports run on Windows, using Windows run-time calls. Most
UNIX/Linux calls are _not_ supported, for example there is no fork().
> (and maybe even some command line tools).
Yes, but they are ported to use the Windows run-time calls.
Perhaps you are thinking of Cygwin, which does implement a UNIX/Linux
(POSIX) emulation on Windows.
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Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-09 7:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-08 15:26 Starting learning ADA Ricardo Brandão
2019-06-08 15:53 ` Simon Wright
2019-06-08 17:07 ` Ricardo Brandão
2019-06-09 1:42 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2019-06-09 7:25 ` Niklas Holsti [this message]
2019-06-08 15:55 ` joakimds
2019-06-08 17:10 ` Ricardo Brandão
2019-06-08 17:46 ` joakimds
2019-06-08 20:10 ` Simon Wright
2019-06-09 14:39 ` Ricardo Brandão
2019-06-09 17:44 ` Simon Wright
2019-06-09 18:12 ` Ricardo Brandão
2019-06-09 19:29 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-06-10 17:40 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2019-06-09 18:23 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2019-06-09 14:31 ` Ricardo Brandão
2019-06-09 19:35 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2019-06-10 12:28 ` Ricardo Brandão
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