Re: Possibility of a MinGW version?

On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 08:51:53AM -0500, Rob McDonald wrote:

MSYS is a minimal system that includes ports of all build-chain tools
you need to get Makefiles to work.  I would envision using it along
with native ports of Perl, Tk/Tcl, etc.

MSYS is basically an unmaintained fork of Cygwin.  It uses an old
version of the Cygwin DLL with some hacks to handle path names
differently.  It isn't intended as a platform for porting packages to
MSYS.  It is intended to be used as an environment for porting packages
to MinGW.

cgf