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<p dir="auto">Hi Christoph,<br>
historically, we don't use M$ compilers, notably because of buggish pre-processor.<br>
We use the mingw layer as target architecture instead.<br>
Cygwin offers all the necessary tools to cross-compile for mingw target for a long time, so we used that.<br>
Nowadays, it could be wsl as well as it can perform cross-compilation for mingw target easily too.<br>
Now that Eliot added makefiles for using LLVM compiler, we could completely avoid mingw layer, but the makefiles still use some unixy commands, so we still need a unix layer; I guess that Eliot just reused the already existing cygwin dependency...<br>
If you want to replace it with something simpler (maybe msys minimal shell), you're welcome!<br>
Still, I find it nice to have a choice, compilers gradually exploit the presumed absence of undefined behavior more and more aggressively, compiler bugs happens too, we might also depend on some implementation details like stack handling, so keeping a mingw target (either thru gcc or clang) still has some value IMO.</p>

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