[Haskell-cafe] Re: binding to C libraries on Windoww

[Stephen Tetley]

2009/12/9 Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin at btinternet.com>:

>
> I see. So you're saying that while Cygwin is a Unix emulator, MinGW is just
> a set of Unix-style tools which run natively on Windows?
>

Yes, in a nutshell MinGW executables are native. Executables in Cygwin
may or may not have dependencies on cygwin.dll the Unix emulation
library (depending whether or not they actually use Unix calls of
course).