Article:		Building Mono on Windows
Subject:		msys?
Date:		2005-02-08 05:24:07
From:		simon_massey
msys is a minimal cygwin environment from the MinGW ('Minimal Gnu Windows') project. the idea behind msys it is that wont want to install the whole of cygwin just to run the latest gcc compiler and friends on windows. it would appear that a lot could be learnt from the mingw to get mono to build on cleanly on windows ("MinMW"? - Minimal Mono for Windows?). Perhaps a starting point might be to install msys and then add the required cygin packages to the baseline install.

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• msys?
  2005-02-08 06:18:19  simon_massey [View]
  
  
  The msys install is around 6.16 M. The MinGW is around 170 M.

• msys?
  2005-02-08 05:32:32  simon_massey [View]
  
  
  the required cygwin packages could be built from MinGW for distribution in the proposed "MinMW".