***BOGO*** Re: [Mingw-users] ALSA / libasound

[Brian Dessent <brian@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Emmas wrote:

> In the comparisons with Cygwin it seems to suggest that Cygwin is the better
> choice for projects that expect POSIX compatibility.  I just wondered if
> that's still the case?

It doesn't make any sense to compare Cygwin and MSYS like that because
they serve very different purposes.

MSYS' only purpose is to port developer tools like perl, bash, autoconf,
etc.  Those tools in turn are used in conjunction with the MinGW
toolchain to produce native Windows binaries.  MSYS is not meant to be
used to port abitrary user code that requires POSIX compatibility.  If
you want that, you should be using Cygwin.  MSYS is only about providing
a build environment for MinGW apps.

Brian

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