[Mono-dev] compile mono on windows

Robert Jordan robertj at gmx.net
Sun Apr 17 06:13:13 EDT 2011


On 17.04.2011 09:11, Quandary wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> From my experience, MinGW is usually faster.
> But it probably depends on the version of gcc they both use.
>
> However, speed is not the main issue.
> The main difference is, MinGW links against the native Windows libc
> runtime (crtdll.dll),
> while Cygwin links against the Cygwin libc (cygwin1.dll).

Mono was always compiled  with -mno-cygwin, so this
is a non-issue.

Robert



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