Re: Compiling with MinGW

[Tor Lillqvist]

Bruno Haible writes:
 > You appear to be using mingw as a development environment. I don't know
 > whether libtool supports that.

If with mingw one combines MSYS, it certainly does. Using MSYS with
auto* and libtool is IMHO much more reliable than using Cygwin, MSYS
gets less in the way and causes less confusion.

 > I use a recent cygwin as the development environment, and mingw only as
 > the deployment environment.

How can mingw be a *deployment* environment (with which I assume you
mean what end-users have), why would end-users of some native Win32
application need a compiler and linker?

--tml