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MinGW port w/o Cygwin?

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Date:	-- (:)
From:	Kuba Ober <ober.14@o...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Re: MinGW port w/o Cygwin?

On Thursday 20 December 2007, Zheng Li wrote:
> FYI, http://d2bg.nfshost.com/lang/ocaml/ocaml.compilation.with.mingw

Tried it and sure enough - it works!!! (On an XP machine that never saw Cygwin
either).

That's *extremely* good news to me.

I guess that Ocaml maintainers should just drop that Cygwin requirement, and 
tweak their build process to work "out of the box" with MSYS/MinGW.

Cheers, Kuba