On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Stephen Tetley <stephen.tetley@gmail.com> wrote:
On 11 December 2011 04:56, Asokan Pichai <pasokan@talentsprint.com> wrote:
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 10:08 AM, MJ Williams <matthewjwilliams101@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi guys, I understand there's a UNIX-like environment that one can install on Windows CYGWIN?
No - for binding to C libraries you want to use MinGW / MSYS. AFAIK MingW is intended to develop WIn32 apps on a Linux platform.
The OP's question is for a Unix-like environment on Windows; which is Cygwin.
The reason for this is basically that everyone else does. Linking static libraries is a bit different internally to Cygwin and it does not seem to "just work" whereas it usually does on MinGW provided you have the C library already working.
I do not understand this part. Asokan