[MLton] mingwows

[skaller]

On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 19:46 +0200, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote:
> In Oct 13, 2005, at 5:38 PM, Daniel C. Wang wrote:
> > So. i forget exactly how mingwing and cyngwin relate, but doesn't  
> > cygwin ship with the headers tool and runtime to let you build  
> > mingwin apps.
> 
> Yeah, cygwin includes some strange mutation of MinGW.
> I personally just use the 'official' MinGW distro instead.
> 
> > If so I'd suggest we ditch the "native" cygiwn build and only  
> > support a cygwin or msys build of a native migwin app.
> 
> Cygwin has fork and other UNIXisms.
> These are then available to SML.
> For the MinGW build, some POSIX methods are just missing.
> So, I am not sure dropping cygwin is really an option.

Ocaml does its own emulation, so it isn't vulnerable to
changes or faults in Cygwin.

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