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From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
To: Mike Doyle <relyod@cooperationireland.org>
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Subject: Re: cygnus compiler?
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Mike Doyle said on Jul  3, 2001 at 16:38:27:
> The other thing it might be referring to is the "Cygwin" compiler
> used to port unix utils to Windows. (A free compiler for Win32 environments)
> 
> I don't know all the details, and Cygwin may or may not be based on
> some version of GCC, but its certainlt available from the RH website
> family. ;-)

Actually, Cygwin is an environment, which includes gcc and other
developer utilities for porting unix programs, and also a bash shell,
various standard commandline unix utilities, etc.  I've used it when I
had no option, and it's quite nice: you get the user-friendliness of
unix and the stability of windows :)

(BTW GCC continues to have its copyrights transferred to the FSF so
it's not really owned by Red Hat, though RH does pay several
developers.  I'm not sure about Cygwin.)

R

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