From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30F05BC69 for ; Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:45:55 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Aq4HAOshckdDWxLC/2dsb2JhbACBV5AJl2Y X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.24,208,1196636400"; d="scan'208";a="20705393" Received: from ip67-91-18-194.z18-91-67.customer.algx.net (HELO server1.bertec.net) ([67.91.18.194]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 26 Dec 2007 18:45:54 +0100 Received: from kuba.bertec.net (kuba.bertec.net [192.168.2.16]) by server1.bertec.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B28A1CDFB7 for ; Wed, 26 Dec 2007 12:45:52 -0500 (EST) From: Kuba Ober To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: MinGW port w/o Cygwin? Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 12:45:47 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 0.20071123.740460) References: <200712200930.29585.ober.14@osu.edu> <200712201518.20487.ober.14@osu.edu> <90823c940712210606h24f7617eh4e20745cd3e4782a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <90823c940712210606h24f7617eh4e20745cd3e4782a@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200712261245.48170.ober.14@osu.edu> X-Spam: no; 0.00; mingw:01 cygwin:01 cygwin:01 ocaml:01 mingw:01 ocaml:01 clashes:01 another's:01 forks:01 cheers:01 2007,:98 20,:98 wrote:01 wrote:01 unix:01 On Friday 21 December 2007, Dmitry Bely wrote: > On Dec 20, 2007 11:18 PM, Kuba Ober wrote: > > Tried it and sure enough - it works!!! (On an XP machine that never saw > > Cygwin either). > > > > That's *extremely* good news to me. > > > > I guess that Ocaml maintainers should just drop that Cygwin requirement, > > and tweak their build process to work "out of the box" with MSYS/MinGW. > > If MSYS become mandatory I strongly disagree. Cygwin is a common > requirement for building any Ocaml distribution on Windows (even if > you use Microsoft Visual Studio). I see absolutely no problem to > install and use it. Why I should bother to install another Cygwin fork > (MSYS) and handle name clashes etc.? Cygwin and MSYS are very different. Calling one another's fork is like saying that Linux and FreeBSD are both UNIX forks. Cygwin is a make-believe unix environment on WIndows. It's a big hack. MSYS is just a bunch of Unix tools ported to run *natively* on Windows. Cygwin is a common requirement because it makes things simpler on the surface. When in fact, it makes everything much worse off. Cheers, Kuba