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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Starting learning ADA
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2019 10:25:06 +0300
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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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