[Mono-devel-list] [PATCH] Remove cyg prefix from native DLLs on Windows

[Kornél Pál]

>That's only for now.  Maybe in the future, we may want to distinguish
>between the two.  For example, if we have separate MingW32 and Cygwin
>builds, the MWF hackers can test all these on a single machine:
>
>  * SWF on .NET
>  * MWF/Win32 on Mono/Mingw32
>  * MWF/X11 on Mono/Cygwin
>
>It'll allow GTK# developers to test the following in parallel:
>
>  * GTK# + GTK+/Win32 on .NET
>  * GTK# + GTK+/Win32 on Mono/Mingw32
>  * GTK# + GTK+/X11 on Mono/Cygwin

OK, now I understand your plans. By the way I think Cygwin allows X11
libraries to be used even when using mingw32 target.

And do you plan to use cygwin-1.dll when targetting cygwin and use native
Windows libraries when targetting mingw32?

Kornél