On Friday 05 April 2013 18:32:04 Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 04/05/2013 04:09 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Friday 05 April 2013 10:44:37 Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> >> Why not consider using cygwin?
> > 
> > at least recommend mingw instead of cygwin :)
> 
> You're right, mingw + msys might be enough for the
> users requirements.
> 
> You must keep in mind that mingw's design is to
> provide an open source build environment for windows
> development and not a portability layer. Though the
> mingwex runtime has some portability functions to
> aid in the transition, it still just using the Windows
> C runtime.

that's why you use gnulib w/mingw :)
-mike