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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.

-- 
Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
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  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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