<p>That's the advantage of using cygwin pre-built libraries: they are compiled for us and security patches are applied sooner than if we manage them by ourself.</p>
<p>And that's the drawback: we have no control on exact version (apart major version), and library can change from one build to another. But it's the same if you use pre-built libraries from macosx and linux (libc, libm, etc...). We have to trust...</p>

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