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rbanffy on Nov 27, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: A site for Picolisp, a very true Lisp

MinGW is a compiler set. Cygwin gives me a full Unix-like environment on top of Windows. It's not an apples to apples comparison.

mikeytown2 on Nov 27, 2009 | [–]

Look into CoLinux, I like it a lot more then Cygwin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_Linux

cema on Nov 27, 2009 | [–]

That's MSYS in MinGW world.

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