Author: Allen Lake
Date: 00:01:35 05/20/02
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On May 19, 2002 at 17:12:22, Dan Andersson wrote: >Or use the Cygwin package. Then you get a nice CLI with BASH, CS, TCSH, ZSH >etc... > One problem: unless you want to build GCC 3.1 from source, it isn't yet available for Cygwin. I did build it for Cygwin on my Win98SE machine (Athlon 1.2GHz, 512 MB RAM), and it took about 3.5 hours and 3 reboots for the build to complete. If you install the MSYS package along with MinGW, you also get a CLI which includes bash 2.04 and many other useful command line tools. I've been using MSYS/MinGW for a couple of months and it compares very favorably with Cygwin for most of the work I've been doing. Also, my MSYS/MinGW compiled binaries do not have a dependency on any of the Cygwin dll's (cygwin1.dll, etc.). I've been able to get several of the open source chess software packages to compile on MinGW, with the exception of Crafty (still working on it). Bottom line: MinGW/MSYS is worth a look, if you don't mind tinkering a little and you have a fast Internet connection.
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