> Mariano Martinez Peck marianopeck at gmail.com wrote ...
>
> 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.

Performance is definitely a consideration (+ whatever licensing issues &
including the cygwin.dll) .  Do you know how badly (or how well) Cygwin
performs v. MinGW?  ---John
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