Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: binding to C libraries on Windoww

2009/12/9 Andrew Coppin :

I see. So you're saying that while Cygwin is a Unix emulator, MinGW is just a set of Unix-style tools which run natively on Windows?

Yes, in a nutshell MinGW executables are native. Executables in Cygwin may or may not have dependencies on cygwin.dll the Unix emulation library (depending whether or not they actually use Unix calls of course).