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[Conan Kudo (ニール・ゴンパ) <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx>]

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> Well, your statement isn't entirely true. MinGW isn't designed to make
>> Windows more Linux-like. It uses Windows file path conventions and
>> everything, and it is just a compiler toolchain. Cygwin, on the other hand,
>> is designed to make Windows more Linux like. It uses a special build of
>> MinGW that links into Cygwin and preserves the Unix path stuff, among other
>> things.
>>
>> I'd like to see MinGW support from CoApp, but somehow I doubt it will
>> happen unless we stumble on a program or library that CANNOT build on Visual
>> Studio for one reason or another.
>>
>> Most of the time, I find that MSVC's lack of C99 support is the one that
>> kills it. Heck, I've been fighting with MSVC in getting one project I work
>> on to compile on it properly. One of the big problems was C99 support. There
>> are other problems too, but ehh.
>>
>> I think it is quite likely we will see MinGW support added to CoApp even
>> though the goal is to use Visual Studio's build system. The two aren't
>> mutually exclusive after all. Nothing really stops us from using msbuild
>> with MinGW, other than it just hasn't been done before.
>>
>> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Dj Gilcrease <digitalxero@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Olaf van der Spek
>>> <olafvdspek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> > On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Seo Sanghyeon <sanxiyn@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>> >> I came across http://takeoffgw.sourceforge.net/ which seems to be
>>> relevant.
>>> >>
>>> >> Thoughts?
>>> >
>>> > What are yours?
>>>
>>> IMHO it isnt overly relevant other the concept is similar. Their
>>> system is based wholly on cygwin and mingw. Both of which are system
>>> designed to make windows more linux like instead of trying to make the
>>> other software properly cross platform.
>>>
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