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

Guessing, I would say that the build environment, at the very least. NT/2K/XP 
is fairly POSIX compliant, but you would need gcc and bash (or some unix-y 
shell), ar, etc. I wouldn't think that you would have to link with the 
libcygwin stuff.

Michael
On 2005-11-19 at 09:21:16 [-0500], Charlie Clark wrote:
> 
> 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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