[Mono-list] Few Newbie Questions

[Piers Haken]

The short answer is that there's more to a build environment than what
mingw supplies.

Since the mono project is designed to be built on both windows an linux
it makes sense to have a common build environment on both operating
systems. Currently the easiest way to do this is with GNU/Linux &
GNU/Cygwin - remember this has nothing to do with the generated
executables, just the build environment.

Cygwin provides the most convenient win32 distribution of build
dependancies like make, pkg-config, bash, autoconf, etc... You could
probably find mingw versions of these tools, but i doubt the
compatibility running the same scripts would be as good.

piers

-----Original Message-----
From: Eagle [mailto:eagle@uoxdev.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 9:41 AM
To: mono-list@ximian.com
Subject: Re: [Mono-list] Few Newbie Questions


yes but what about using just mingw WITHOUT the cygwin enviroment ( I.E.
the
Minimalist MinGW  www.mingw.org )



----- Original Message -----
From: "Dick Porter" <dick@ximian.com>
To: "Eagle" <eagle@uoxdev.com>
Cc: <mono-list@ximian.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 10:49 AM
Subject: Re: [Mono-list] Few Newbie Questions


> On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 09:28:15AM -0500, Eagle wrote:
> > My fist question being that on the go-mono site there are alot of
refrences to the cygwin compiler for compiling on win32 , I myself use a
MingW gcc based compiler so its not dependant on and of the cygwin dll's
(
witch i believe make the ending program slow becouse of the posix
emulation ) , so the question is has anyone had any luck with compiling
on
win32 with MingW ( the specific compiler i use is http://www.mingw.org ,
with GDB http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/ Debuger and
http://www.bloodshed.net
IDE all of witch are GPL on win32 )
>
> We use the mingw compiler on cygwin. (BTW, the enter key is the large
one
with
> the arrow pointing down, and to the left).
>
> - Dick
>
>


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