in reply to building win32 perl using cygwin

You got that backwards. MinGW is a bundle of Cygwin parts made specifically to play nice with win32. The reason there are no instructions on what you're trying to do is because MinGW "proper" was created for that express purpose. If you want to compile a native Windows perl using GNU tools, just use MinGW, thats what its for.

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Re^2: building win32 perl using cygwin
by ysth (Canon) on Jan 04, 2005 at 06:48 UTC
    That may be the history, but they are now completely separate. The native windows mode of cygwin really is taken from the mingw project, not vice versa. If you ask questions about it on the cygwin lists, you'll be told to buzz off (cough, that is, you'll be politely redirected to the mingw people). And there's no reason to just install multiple megabytes of mingw when I already have the tools to do the job.
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