From: Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: free Ada compiler ?
Date: 15 Jan 2002 09:36:11 -0500
Date: 2002-01-15T14:40:14+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <upu4bd6lg.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: a209ge$c2j$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
"hongxun lee" <lee.1801@osu.edu> writes:
> A stupid Q: what's mingwin? i saw it very recently. Something similar to
> Cygwin?
http://www.mingw.org/
MinGW (the "win" was changed to "w" a while ago) is a binding to the
Windows API, that uses POSIX-ish names. It lets POSIX-ish programs
(like the Gnu tools) be compiled for the native Windows runtime,
without any additional code.
Cygwin is similar, but adds code to do some emulation stuff for pipes,
file system links, and other stuff not present in the Windows runtime.
So Cygwin can support a broader range of applications, but Mingw is
lighter weight.
--
-- Stephe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-15 14:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-09 19:06 free Ada compiler ? hongxun lee
2002-01-09 20:22 ` Preben Randhol
2002-01-10 1:22 ` hongxun lee
2002-01-10 6:38 ` Gerhard Häring
2002-01-12 10:05 ` Thomas Mueller
2002-01-14 14:48 ` Stephen Leake
2002-01-14 22:28 ` hongxun lee
2002-01-15 3:51 ` Robert Dewar
2002-01-15 3:59 ` hongxun lee
2002-01-15 14:36 ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2002-01-15 16:13 ` hongxun lee
2002-01-16 18:00 ` Pascal Obry
2002-01-15 16:14 ` hongxun lee
2002-01-15 18:51 ` Jerry van Dijk
2002-01-15 21:20 ` Stephen Leake
2002-01-15 22:08 ` hongxun lee
2002-01-16 2:18 ` Steve Doiel
2002-01-16 2:49 ` hongxun lee
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2001-07-20 1:39 Free Ada compiler? tinh trinh
2001-07-20 2:51 ` Larry Kilgallen
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