On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 4:42 AM, Matthew Mondor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mm_lists@pulsar-zone.net">mm_lists@pulsar-zone.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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</div>When reading this I was wondering: would a mingw port be easier, using<br>
winapi (it is simpler, more efficient with less wrapping)? Or does the<br>
cygwin port already make use of the cygwin-mingw cross-compiler? Also,<br>
is fork() in this case only used to execute the compiler?<br>
</blockquote></div><br>There is already a mingw port, but there are also people that use cygwin for their software (Maxima, Sage I believe,...). This is the reason why there is a cygwin port at all -- but not a very useful one I believe.<br>
<br>fork() is used to execute all external tools, gcc, ar, file, ... I already mentioned the alternatives<br><br>Juanjo<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Instituto de Física Fundamental, CSIC<br>c/ Serrano, 113b, Madrid 28006 (Spain) <br>
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