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Re:MSYS2: Arch Linux on Microsoft Windows by b169118 on Thursday March 03, 2016 @05:29AM (#11216022)
Looks like there are two gcc versions, one is msys/gcc which is 4.9 and the other is mingw gcc which is 5.3. For a person like me who doesn't know anything about the differences between cygwin/mingw/msys etc. this is a little bit confusing.
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Re:MSYS2: Arch Linux on Microsoft Windows by botw on Friday March 04, 2016 @06:50PM (#11227643)
As far as I understand, cygwin/msys gcc compiles and links against cygwin.dll/msys.dll which is a incomplete POSIX emulation on Windows. mingw gcc compiles and links against msvc.dll which is MS c runtime for MS win32 native application.
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