DOS ain't dead - Considering MS-DOS

Considering MS-DOS (Users)

posted by marcov, 04.08.2011, 08:53

> > There is also MinGW, an implementaion of the Gnu compiler suite that
> uses
> > the Microsoft runtime instead of the Cygwin POSIX layer, and there are
> > ports of bash ansd zsh for it.
>
> I rather use mingw32 under win. It doesn't need cygwin DLL and msvcrt DLL
> is a standard part of windows. Also mingw gcc runs faster. But it has some
> tricky things like I crashed my mouth when printing 64bit ints by %lld and
> msvcrt needed %I64...

mingw32 is migrating more and more stuff to MSys? Seens like it is at least adapting *some* cygwin aspects

We are planning to move away from a GNU make based buildsystem because of this, and the fact that the mingw coreutils are essentially 6 years old.

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