[openbeos] Re: Compiling Haiku On Windows...

On 2005-11-18 at 11:25:35 [+0100], Mathew Schofield <mr.skoe@xxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> Now, there is a utility for Windows called Cygwin which tries to give
> Windows POSIX compatability (Amoung other things). It also allows
> Unix/Linux apps to be compiled for Windows. I am currently setting up
> cygwin to compile Haiku, and so far i have [slowly] managed to create
> a toochain.

Just out of interest: how much of Cygwin do you need and how much can be 
done using the Mingw compiler. I remember in the long dark history of NT 
beta testing that NT was supposed to have a relatively good POSIX subsystem 
as projects like PostgreSQL (used to cygwin only) indicate.

Charlie

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