c language

[Brian K. White]

Fairlight wrote:

> Why even use cygwin anymore?  VirtualBox with a -real- distro on it is so
> much cleaner.  I used cygwin for a while, but it was pretty ugly--and X11

Compilation environment to produce windows binaries without relying on 
msvc++express or any commercial compiler. That's not a religious 
requirement like it sounds, just the most practical goal to try for as 
long as it's available.
Are you saying you have a well-working cross-compile environment for a 
linux host to produce windows binaries? I wouldn't mind switching to 
building that way.

I use mingw/msys now for that. Cygwin is no longer useful for this since 
they dropped "-mno-cygwin".

Cygwin is still useful as a pc x server and for the use of rsync. I have 
occasionally found it handy to have bash/ksh and other typical *ix tools 
  to process files directly on my windows filesystem rather than zip 
them up and move to a linux box to work on. But it's marginal 
justification. I barely/hardly ever actually use cygwin for anything but 
compiling, so without that there is very little use left. Just not none.

-- 
bkw