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MinGW port w/o Cygwin?

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Date:	-- (:)
From:	Zheng Li <li@p...>
Subject:	Re: MinGW port w/o Cygwin?


FYI, http://d2bg.nfshost.com/lang/ocaml/ocaml.compilation.with.mingw

Kuba Ober <ober.14@osu.edu> writes:
> I'm looking at getting the MinGW/MSYS port working w/o Cygwin.
>
> I understand that command line length is problematic under Windows,
> among other things. I was thinking of implementing (if not present yet) 
> argument files for MinGW, along with requisite build system changes
> in Ocaml itself, such that native builds under Windows could be done
> without Cygwin. I'd also try and get the patches accepted into MinGW
> / MSYS.

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Zheng Li
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