Re: Cross-compilation for windows

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On 3/2/07, Kuang-Chun Cheng <kcc1967@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Why not just try compiling using cygwin?
> > Its been long, but I was able to get gtk compiled on cygwin.
>
> I used cygwin before, but switch to xmingw for two reasons:
> 1) license.  Cygwin can't be used for commercial product unless
>    you order the commercial license.
> 2) performance of xmingw based application is usually better than
>    cygwin because xmingw use native Windows APIs instead of
>    wrapper APIs.

Okay... I didnt tried xmingw - my intention was not for commercial purposes.
If thats the case, then xmingw should be good.

My only concern was since Cygwin already ships the libraries, running
a test build would be easy & probably if you plan to take your build
for commercial purposes, maybe you can switch to xmingw.

Thanks,
Makuchaku
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