Re: Compiling 4.0 under cygwin/mingw (was: Compiling 4.0b

[tony summerfelt <tsummerfelt1@...>]

At 12:27 PM 5/7/2001, you wrote:

> Just curious.  What's the compelling reason to run it under mingw and not
> just straight cygwin?


mingw doesn't need the cygwin.dll to run the executable. that's what i 
compile the windows versions of vim under...

mingw is a lot easier to set up under windows compared to cygwin, and takes 
up less space (if that's a concern...)


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