From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mailsrv.cs.umass.edu (mailsrv.cs.umass.edu [128.119.240.136]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ABA643898012 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 2020 20:56:17 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org ABA643898012 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=cs.umass.edu Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=moss@cs.umass.edu Received: from [192.168.0.13] (c-24-62-203-86.hsd1.ma.comcast.net [24.62.203.86]) by mailsrv.cs.umass.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5D812401A560; Wed, 18 Nov 2020 15:56:17 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: moss@cs.umass.edu Subject: Re: g++ and c++17 filesystem To: Kristian Ivarsson , cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: =?UTF-8?Q?Ren=c3=a9_Berber?= References: From: Eliot Moss Message-ID: <861bc601-876b-e16d-d4f7-0bb543d61d8e@cs.umass.edu> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 15:56:17 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.12.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, NICE_REPLY_A, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 20:56:18 -0000 I would agree that if you want an executable that acts and feels more like a Windows native application, then mingw is probably what you want. Cygwin is if you want something that acts and feels more like a Posix thing ... which means it will be oriented to Posix style paths. EM