On Thursday 03 April 2008 08:34:00 pm JonY wrote: > Hi, > Cygwin attempts to emulate much of POSIX on Windows, the downside is all > programs compiled to take advantage of cygwin features rely on > cygwin1.dll. It has nice UNIX features though such as fork and UNIX > sockets emulation. > > MSYS is an old Cygwin fork containing a subset of UNIX support > applications. Its primary use is to ease porting applications using UNIX > style build system such as autotools while using MinGW tools to build > it, a convenience for Win32 users. All programs will link to msvcrt.dll. > One does not usually "compile for MSYS" unless developing for MSYS. so you could build a *nix app as win32 with say mingw but not have to worry about the dll? > To use it, just unpack them to anywhere on the new computer and they > will run fine. Do try to avoid placing MSYS and MinGW apps together though. why? > You can also unpack them unto your USB drive if you have the space on it > and run it from there, you need only adjust fstab before starting MSYS. > > For permanent user directory, you should be able to easily edit it to > point to a permanent home directory even on new machines. > > Its a bit of a hassle when you first start and somewhat steep for new > users. hassle for me is all. which is why I'd like a portableapps version. I don't hardly use windows enough to care. but we have windows at school, and getting *nix as a laptop on there wifi was a pita, I never did succeed. > > also vim 5? does the vim 7 for windows work under msys? if not do you > > guys think you could release a vim 7 installer? I really like the latest > > features of vim (especially tabs). > > There is vim 7.1 binary for MSYS on the sourceforge downloads. Its under > MSYS Supplementary Tools. It has support for tabs too, but I would still > consider it a console app rather than a GUI one. cool I'll check it out. doesn't matter if it is a console app. I have portable vim installed, if I want the gui, but I'm used to cli anyhow. -- Caleb Cushing my blog http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com
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