On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:46 PM, John Chludzinski <
john.chludzinski at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Yoshiki Ohshima yoshiki at vpri.org
> > Wed Aug 26 20:32:00 UTC 2009
> >
> > At Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:28:46 -0400,
> > John Chludzinski wrote:
> >
> >> Wouldn't Cygwin allow for greater commonality (than MinGW) within the
> code base? ---John
> >
>   > In the current code base, do you have any particular pieces in your
> > mind where switching to Cygwin would really help to get greater
> > commonality?
> >
> > -- Yoshiki
>
> No I don't.  I've never looked thru the VM source for Win32 calls that
> could be POSIX calls.  I just ported a POSIX app (OpenSolaris) to Windows
> (using Cygwin 1.7 beta) and was impressed with how remarkably painless that
> was.  And being a Smalltalker/Squeaker, when possible, that question came to
> mind.  ---John
>

The thing is the license with Cygwin. You must attach cygwin dll with your
program (SqueakVM in this case)    :(
MinGW as the name says, it is smaller and in my case (I did this for OpenDBX
library) it was much more faster than cygwin. Obviously that's if the app
you want to compile doesn't use certain stuff MinGW can handle. And you
don't depend in any external dll like cygwin.
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